Re: Swap space question
At the risk of being an AOL user, me too.
The rule is "Make sure your real ram is at least a third of what you need",
not "You need three times what you have".
Regards,
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Anthon <mca@tams.com.au>
To: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 2:37 PM
Subject: RE: Swap space question
> > When I first installed Debian Sparc from the CD, I partitioned a Gig
> > of Swap space since I have half a Gig of Ram. The Slink kernel would
>
> I have often seen this "rule of thumb" used in this way and I believe that
> it has long been misinterpreted. The rule that I am talking about is "you
> need at least twice the amount of swap space as you have RAM".
>
> I am pretty sure that the original interpretation of this rule was more
> along the lines of "determine how much memory you will need to run
> everything you need to run, then make sure that at least 1/3 of that is
> physical RAM".
>
> The intention here is a trade off between system performance and cost.
> Hardware has, however, progressed to a point where this rule is pretty
much
> useless for normal systems. If you are running a machine with 512M of
RAM,
> then you probably don't really need to configure any swap space at all
> unless the machine will need it for running a big database or some other
> memory hungry application. That 1G of swap space could be used for a much
> better purpose (like storing 1G of pron or mp3s.. hehe). If you ever
really
> do need the extra memory, simple create a swap partition and use swapon as
> the need arises.
>
> Just my $0.02 (+10%GST) worth.
>
> Regards
> Michael Anthon
>
>
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