On a Linux system it doesn't really matter so long as you have enough
:-).
On a SCO system though you MUST have at least RAMSIZE+10% as when it
crashes, it writes the contents of ram to the swap partition. If there
isn't enough room, it will simply overwrite your root partition with the
excess.
Greg
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From: aoc
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Swap File, how large can it be?
Date: Thursday, 5 March 1998 10:00AM
> >
> > I heard that a general rule for swap area was to have twice the size
of
> > your RAM in your machine. Thus if you have 64 MB RAM, you should
have
> > 128 MB for swap. But I am wondering now that memory prices have
gone down
> > and more and more application demand more memory, suppose if you
have
> > 128 MB of RAM, does that mean you have to upgrade your 128MB swap
file to
> > 256MB swap file, and so on?
> >
> > Isn't 256MB swap file kind of large? Where do we stop or do we ever
stop?
> >
shouldn't swap size be ram/2 rather than ram x 2?
like if you already have a large amnt. of ram,
then the chances of swap being used would be slimmer,
so why is there a need for 2x swap ?
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