Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Mar 1998 20:40:39 +0100 | From | Alexander Kjeldaas <> | Subject | Re: Swap area: why not more than 128M each? |
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On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 07:19:36PM +0100, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 10:35:38AM +0000, p0thead@ooz.net wrote: > > > Not to sound like a dork, but why edo you need a gig of swap? just curious > > :) > > Imagine, there are machines with RAM in the two digit gigabytes and they're > swapping ...
Not that I'm against large swapfiles or anything, but with 1GB+ of memory, putting 4GB of swap on one disk is not a good idea. On those systems you need to spread the swap on lots of disks to get reasonable swap-bandwidth/memory.
astor
-- Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway http://www.guardian.no/
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