agreed.....
Woody
Security Administrator
Localline.com, Oxford, IN
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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> Woody wrote:
>
> > Actually I can agree with you totally....just one thing....I don't think
> > that you will ever use a full 128 M swap space UNLESS you are running some
> > big daddy server.....
>
> Fair enough. I seem to remember some past threads around here that took up
> this issue, and the general consensus seemed to be that this particular rule
> of thumb does date back to days of smaller RAM; the number 64megs seems to
> hover in my mind as one proposed 'sufficiently ridiculous' amount of swap.
> And unless there are transients that I'm missing, none of my machines ever
> make it above five or ten megs of usage in swap anyhow.
>
> The scary monster to look out for (and here, again, I merely give voice to
> that which I've read elsewhere) is the odd crash that tries to dump a big core
> out somewhere; supposedly that can cause a lot of memory to be eaten up in a
> hurry, hence the 'twice RAM' figure to allow for a program as big as your RAM
> to dump its whole big ugly self to swap for copying out to a core dump file
> without running you completely out of memory (thus causing the end of the
> world).
>
> But it's never happened to me. The biggest core dump I can recall ever seeing
> was _maybe_ ten megs or so.
>
> All sort of far afield from the original question, sure, but I think there was
> at least some interest in the "why" as well as the "how much." 8)
>
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