On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:18:33PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> Is it? I thought it was the default. More doesn't make sense. > > If you have 8GB ram, 256MB swap is useless. 4 or 8GB might be useful. > Some people work with datasets that large sometimes. If you have 32MB > ram, 256MB swap is probably too much.
I'm not sure swap size should be related to memory size like that. It's more related to the amount of committed but not regularly used memory and the performance of the swap device. >> That seems silly. > > Linux has always been that way. It will only rescan a partition table > if the device isn't in use at all. That doesn't make it any less silly. ;) -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTinv-JJ+PjMnsG8aovxexfvLg=+d1tkmpsp6_...@mail.gmail.com
