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SubjectRe: Swap File sizes

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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