Messages in this thread | | | Subject | 2.4.20 kernel, 4Go Ram, swap size recommendation ? | From | Nicolas Turro <> | Date | 18 Jun 2003 14:19:12 +0200 |
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Hi, we have a bunch of Pcs here with 4 Go of ram. In the old times, setting a swap file twice as big as the physical ram was the rule i followed. In the begining of 2.4 series this rule was mandatory. What is the current 'usage' speaking of swapfile size ?
We have big disks (80Go) so 8go of swap is not a problem but is-it necessary ? Realistic ? Most of our machines will be used as desktop, with kde env + dev tools AND will sometime run ONE BIG process.. (mathlab, custom computation). I think that each process cannot be bigger than 3 Go ? plus, let say, an overhead of.. 2 Go for the env (X server/kde), totalling 5 Go of total memory space needed... 4 Go of physram + 8 Go swap seems useless... Any thoughts ?
-- Nicolas Turro <Nicolas.Turro@sophia.inria.fr> INRIA
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