---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rafael Fontenelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25/04/2008 01:31 Subject: Re: OT (slightly) swap limits To: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
2008/4/25, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked > > questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? > > > > > For desktops, from my experience, I would say you need at least as much as > your RAM. To be on the safe side, I go for 2 times the RAM. > > I hibernate my desktops pretty frequently. When hibernating a machine, a > snapshot of the RAM is written on to the swap partition. That is why I > follow "at least as much as RAM" rule. > > hth > raju > > -- > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ > http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > As Kamaraju, I always use a swap partition twice the amount of memory RAM, for security. I do the same in Windows: always 1.5x or 2x. Nice article, Damon. Cheers, Rafael
