on my systems i dont like more then 120-130MB of swap per physical hd, more then that(unless the drive is _really_ fast) could drag the system down real bad. i usually make it a rule for me to include a 128MB swap partition per hd no matter how much/little ram i have. the box im on now is 512MB, with 3 physical hds(2x7200RPM Ultra 2 1x10,000RPM ultra 2) i have approx 375MB of swap, currently 584kB is in use.
course you may need more depending on what the box may do. nate Danny Pansters wrote: > > Hi, > > this might be a bit off-topic, but I've read in several manuals that a swap > over 128 MB doesn't make much sense, but I never understood why. Can anyone > enlight me on that? > > I'm using 128 MB of RAM and have a 128 MB swap, which is fine, but pretty > soon I'll be putting together a server box which will hold 512 MB RAM and now > I'm kinda wondering what to do with the swap size. Of course it doesn't > matter to add a few hundred megs to it, but is it useful? > > -- > Danny Pansters > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.ricin.com > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
