David Brodbeck wrote:
On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
The old "you need 2x RAM for swap" rule is hard to forget.
I never really understood the rationale for that rule. It seems like a
system with more RAM would need less swap, not more. In particular, it
always seemed to me like it'd be a bit silly to use 8 gigs of disk for
swap on a system with 4 gigs of RAM. Can someone explain the reasons
for the 2x rule? Is there a performance boost?
I think it's just from 'the not-so-long-ago' days of yore when 128Mb
went into your sig.txt as boast material, with nameless proprietary
programmes that were resource hogs needing more than that.
2 times seemed to be the required measure and just carried over into
other programmes.
Regards,
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David Palmer
Linux User - #352034
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