Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 1999 18:12:27 -0400 (EDT) | From | Steve Willer <> | Subject | Re: Swap File sizes |
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On Wed, 12 May 1999, George R. Kasica wrote:
> I'm running 384MB of RAM and as was pointed out yesterday making a > 768MB swap is a bit of overkill....I seem to remember that in the > "old" 1.x days the recommendation was to have swap 2x RAM > amount...what would you suggest for the above setup? I'm also running > a P-II 366MHz chip.
I always create a single 128MB swap file, no matter how much RAM the machine is. On large machines, you probably want to avoid all swapping for performance reasons, so you just carry a little bit for bleed-over. On small machines, you don't need a swapfile that's more than, say, 4 times larger than RAM because you're not going to run anything huge.
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