On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 12:40, Vinay Pai wrote:
Your swap should ideally be twice your RAM.
Could someone explain this to me... (please no lengthy explantation of what swap space means, please... I'm a computer science graduate :) )
This should answer your question:
http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010330_113.html#6
If you follow the thread, you will come across comments like this:
"You're not supposed to do anything, that's just a general rule of thumb. If your system hardly ever swaps, use a swapfile, because speed doesn't matter a lot anyway."
"You don't really *need* swap, linux works fine without."
"> So if you never swapped at all under 2.2.x, you should not need any
swap space in 2.4.x either.
Right."
BTW, here's something I noticed about KT - only the mails by big popular names are reported from any thread. For example the URL I've quoted gives only one short quote from Rik van Riel's mail, although the actual discussion in the thread was in an entirely different spirit - it doesn't even reflect the thread correctly!
HTH, Sameer.