I have 512M installed and I use 2x that or a gig of swap. It works for me. On my 128M machine I use 512M swap and that works well too, that machine actually hit 2x swap once so I'm happy that I gave it more. On my 64M machine I use 256M (it has a really small HD too). So for 128M and under I'd use 4x 256 and over 2x On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 21:57, Mark Phillips wrote: > So David, what should the swap size be? 2x memory, 3x, 5x? > > Thanks! > > Mark Phillips > Phillips Marketing, Inc. > mark@phillipsmarketing.biz > 480 945-0798 > 480 945-9197 fax > > No trees were destroyed in the sending of this contaminant free message, > however, a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Mandala [SMTP:davidm@them.com] > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 9:40 PM > To: Plug > Subject: Re: Swap / Was ->Re: INstallation Questions > > I go with the recommendation's of the kernel developers. The 2.4.x > series of kernels can be very aggressive on swap usage. If it starts > swapping it can take the entire 2x swap space quite quickly. > > The older 2.2 and 2.0 kernels were usually quite happy with 1x swap > unless you were on a very small RAM machine and then you might consider > 2x or more. > > If the system runs out of memory bad things can happen so it's not worth > running out of RAM and swap. At the price of HD space today you would be > silly to spare the swap space and have the kernel starve for space. > > Cheers, > > Davidm > > On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 20:01, Mike Starke wrote: > > Does the average user need to even consider a swap > > as large as 512Mb? How often (if at all) is it going > > to hit the swap file? Mine never see's the light of day. > > > > Years ago I had a mail server (PII 300 or something) with about 128Mb > > ram and the same on the swap. The swap never saw the light of day. 300 users > > on the system too. > > > > Have I missed something in the swap calculation, or is the ole > > (swap = ~2x ram) a rough calc only on systems with low ram? > > > > > > v/r > > -Mike > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- David IS Mandala gpg fingerprint 8932 E7EF CCF5 1B8C 1B5C A92E C678 795E 45B2 D952 Phoenix, AZ (480) 460-7545 HP, (602) 741-1363 CP http://www.them.com/~davidm/