Bug#254935: The way the swap size is calculated seems not correct
On Thursday 17 June 2004 13:45, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Margarita Manterola wrote:
> [snip]
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> > I think it would be nicer if the parameters for swap size could be
> > taken from the memory size, the minimum being the memory size, and
> > the maximum the double of the memory size... Or something like
> > that.
>
> This might give weird results for a machine with plenty of RAM but
> small hard disk. Adding a maximum cutoff at about 3* memory size is
> probably better.
Agreed. We have 12GB in our ia64 systems and don't need to eat
a whole 36G disk just for swap. Just an upper limit and keep it
advisory w/ appropriate defaults.
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>
> Thiemo
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