On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:31:14 -0400 (EDT), Will Lowe wrote:
>Well, give yourself at least twice as much swap space as physical memory
>(for 64 megs of ram, go for 128 megs of swap). Swap should be a seperate
>partition.
Actually, this is antiquated advice to be handing out. On my Debian
system this is what free turns up:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/morpheus}free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 63332 61784 1548 27160 32000 16208
-/+ buffers/cache: 13576 49756
Swap: 14328 16 14312
14Mb of SWAP and 63Mb of RAM. For workstations the more RAM you have,
the less you'll need SWAP. The only time this machine has touched swap was
because of the Netscape memory leak. So why waste the HD space for something
that is never used?
Also, the 2x RAM rule of thumb is based on, IIRC, BSD systems which map
RAM into the swap space so to get any swap you had to make the swap partition
as large as RAM and then some.
So, for a workstation, the lower the RAM I'd say the larger the swap.
Something like:
RAM/SWAP
4/32
8/32
16/24
32/16
64/16
Servers, the rule of thumb is, what do you plan to run on the machine and
make sure your RAM/SWAP covers it.
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