On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is my understanding that swap partitions are limited in size to 2GB,
Perhaps. File system limits go beyond that, now. Whether or not this still applies to swap partitions is kind of murky, but it shouldn't apply to swap *files*. I'm not sure that this is a valid questions, though. Do you have any *idea* how much latency you'd create with 4GB+ of swap? Even on a seperate SCSI spindle, you'd spend huge amounts of time waiting for paging operations if you were actively swapping that much RAM. I usually allocate about 1GB at the beginning of the disk. Even that slows things down a little, but provides plenty of elbow room without seriously degrading performance. A better question is why you think you'd need more than 3GB of RAM. You could probably get away with a gig or less unless your apps are totally out of control and building huge heap structures for silly reasons. You should always use *some* swap, but the old multipliers aren't really valid anymore. You need to balance memory requirements with paging requirements, e.g. make sure you have enough RAM+SWAP to run your apps, but remember that paging to disk will slow you down...maybe even kill your server if you spend too much time disk-thrashing your swap. -- "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
