Re: swap space on a large system

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:51:08AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Typically, we create a partition to capture a kernel dump when the system > crashes. Therefore, a system with 16GB of RAM will have a partition with > 16GB. > > How would I scale a system with 64 or 128GB of memory? Any thoughts? > Bigge

Re: swap space on a large system

2008-06-11 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Mag Gam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Typically, we create a partition to capture a kernel dump when the system > crashes. Therefore, a system with 16GB of RAM will have a partition with > 16GB. > How would I scale a system with 64 or 128GB of memory? Any thoughts? As far as I understand, thou

Re: swap space on a large system

2008-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/08 05:51, Mag Gam wrote: > Typically, we create a partition to capture a kernel dump when the > system crashes. How often does that happen? > Therefore, a system with 16GB of RAM will have a > partition with 16GB. > > How wo

swap space on a large system

2008-06-11 Thread Mag Gam
Typically, we create a partition to capture a kernel dump when the system crashes. Therefore, a system with 16GB of RAM will have a partition with 16GB. How would I scale a system with 64 or 128GB of memory? Any thoughts? TIA