RE: Swap space question
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Michael Anthon wrote:
> 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".
Actually, apparently, long ago, the amount of swap you had directly
equaled the amount of VM you had. RAM was just a cache for your swap. So
if you had alot of ram you needed at least that much swap behind it. From
there it is pretty reasonable to go for double that, back in that era.
Jason
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