-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 09/10/2014 at 04:00 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 10/09/2014, Bzzzz <lazyvi...@gmx.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:30:40 +0800 Bret Busby >> <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Alright, then; it is doing token swapping - with 99% of 16GB >>> memory usage, and, swapping only 4% of (about) 40GB swap >>> capacity, you can't seriously tell me that the swapping is >>> working as it should be. >> >> Anyway, a swap of 40GB is too much for a RAM of 16GB (should be >> around 16-20GB), unless you perform operations that generates a >> lot of intermediary results). > > I had understood the rule to be that swap space size should be at > least double the size of the RAM. The rule (more "guideline") as I learned it is that swap capacity should be at *most* double the size of RAM. On systems with 8GB of RAM or more, I usually try to aim for about equal to the size of RAM. On systems with less, I go higher, to be sufficiently sure I won't OOM with normal use of the system. On my current system, with 24GB of RAM, the swap partition is (according to lvdisplay) 22.75GB. > When the system was originally installed, the RAM was (I think) > 8GB. > > If the double the size of the RAM, is still applicable, then 40GB > should be okay. > > But, the question is, does the system say "Ooh that is too much > for me - I can not cope - I will not venture out into that"? > > Does Debian Linux have a swap size limit, beyond which, swapping > is disabled, or, choked? No. It's just a question of how much makes sense to have, beyond which the naturally emergent behavior is one which does not make sense. Because the question of what makes sense can be a fairly subjective one, this is not a question to which there necessarily is a definitive answer. But there does tend to be a consensus one in practice. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUEvJmAAoJEASpNY00KDJrwRwQAJUu2VZqvoHGTLlunrlNLG9t +whtPwJFrlnJHgP2kZRVsN6rtS7vEis0gxnIH0wzROQ5Qpb2cjnzJf0sKV/l/5tU 1AJpzZzeenbyEiataMSu5Pl7DtDInYB5wMI4s7X9w1SEvXZ8RKz7N2o/hgcRzlzt bBhgfQPKO38iPLot+s1tmQG7eG2v0exVyjCRf54D+gULcdcBIiBC6JxrdYiwPQLo e0S2bigMFdaNFcvOcu5uzQZ2vM7dynM/vMBlTy8pLxOzI45xRzHmZDQIJt1SL415 rIY3kmDRQHjMxwudt0Q7AbwZdf+JeCWMzVB0bHY/drdkpzfdk6R+6XjFDPhXwuG1 L+h37wUrtWz1MSds8sy2t2OjsO4IZJHno4vNcfY/Bo6Ykcp6AaetNVUijHZ6a26B loEQb8PPr9VGXDDs/edlAjWJNAnS0+iUv0azqVxGbnmWaPYBVObJcSiM2H0FxNwG r2U8vR7fJgpxcsF3jXAjpEz+RQQ39Fdx2dwrdT+ahNDVV4LSfZ/AR/AQQU7S7ZDV b0OtMpsjghGNazNQXCzTRoPf7lVGfe8YVapuG6HHxXEJ1tAvPnVMgD4Oxm9FgIpb jhxJy9Ot0rofv/6PD46wv8Jb0nM3qj+o91nKwc1xyKwwzMosMVKj28PWbjlzP+mx mfrfR1ioQrod976VcMQ5 =c5AM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/5412f267.9080...@fastmail.fm
