On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 3 Jul 2002, Darren King wrote: > > > I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust > > the swap? I have 256MB. > > This is one of those questions that if you asked five people, you'd get > five (or more) answers. > > I know that some versions of the kernel could have major problems if > swap was not at least twice the size of physical RAM. Disk space is also > pretty cheap now, with a 60G IDE costing about $100. > > If this is a server I'd say yes, adjust swap to twice physical RAM. The > benefits would outweigh the relatively minimal resource usage. > > If it's a desktop and after monitoring the system for a while you notice > little swap usage, I'd say you could probably get away with 512M swap. > > I would not recommend having less swap than physical memory.
don't ya think thats a bit ridiculous though when you stop to think about just how stinkin big that swap space is gonna be? unless this machine is going to be doing heavy graphics or audio processing it's never even oging to use the swap space. it'll just sit there. besides...i'm not aware of any kernel versions that would care one way or the other if the swap space adds up to at least twice the physical ram size. i know plenty of home users that might choke on that, but not the kernel. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!"
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