Kevin, on the old 2.0 and 2.2 kernels your recommendation is correct. On
a 2.4 kernel 2x installed RAM is the minimum recommended swap size, if
you have <64M it is not unheard of to go 4x installed RAM. If a 2.4
kernel runs out of memory and swap it gets nasty.

Cheers,

Davidm

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 22:33, Kevin Geiss wrote:
[snip]
> for swap unless you know you will be stressing the system a lot, just
> slightly more than physical ram should be fine. 2x is excessive (unless
> you only have 64mb ram or less). but in general, the more ram you have,
> the less swap you need.
> 
[snip]
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