virtual memory swap size

[Tom Bradford]

Craig White wrote:
> If you have 128Mb RAM what would be the optimal size to make the swap
> partition?  If you are running HTTP off this machine would it matter?

For Linux, the optimal size for a swap partition would be 0.  Save your
hard drive space for important stuff like MP3s and Pr0n...  Instead,
just buy a lot of RAM, because as soon as your machine starts hitting
swap, it's going to thrash to death.  If you absolutely must, .5 to 2.0
times physical RAM is a good size.

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