On Tue, 09 Sep 2014, lee wrote: > Why would 40GB be too much? It's probably too much, unless you have processes which allocate lots of memory and then use it very infrequently or you have incredibly fast disks.
> I have 8/64 so I can use swapping to slow down the downfall of the > system. The system won't go down unless you've disabled the OOM killer or discovered a kernel bug. [Granted, processes will be killed off, but that's to be expected.] Generally speaking, you want enough swap so that infrequently used memory can be offloaded to disk, but not so much swap that your computer stops being responsive when you begin to run out of free memory. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140909205154.gm7...@rzlab.ucr.edu
