I read in a O'reilly book a while back that you should never make a swap
partition over 120MB, why do they say that?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Tim Fairchild
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 8:55 AM
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Subject: Re: redhat-digest Digest V00 #152
> ubject:
> running out of memory crashes linux?
> Date:
> Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:24:02 -0800 (PST)
> From:
> Mark Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm running RedHat 6.0 on a pentium 200 w/ 32 mb of ram and 60 mb of
> swap space. The other day I was writing a program for a school assignment
Not enough swap. I'd suggest more. I used to run 64meg on a 32 meg
system with 5.2, but I was often in trouble running gimp and netscape
together, esp if netscape was open for a while and eating memory. System
started crawling...
When I put mdk 6.1 on I went all out and put a 256 meg swap (still 32
meg RAM). So far I've only used up to 85 meg of the swap, so I'd suggest
at least 100 - 128 meg swap with a 32 meg system and 6.x ('course I'm
running KDE and netscape)
eg as I sit writing the mail with the normal sort of stuff I run, I
get...
[amosf@shiva amosf]$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 30540 29796 744 22004 652
12532
-/+ buffers/cache: 16612 13928
Swap: 265032 65400 199632
And that's before I crank up SO or WP8 :-)
tim
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