Re: SWAP or swap

[the lone gunman <lgunman@crh1828.urh.uiuc.edu>]

On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 04:30:22PM -0500, Matthew D. Myers wrote:
> I have been running my linux with approx. 100 MB swap partition, all how to's and books say no swap partition bigger than 16 MB.
> 
> What's the story, does linux REALLY not use any more that 16MB swap?

I've also heard it's a question of how much ram do you have...  I
believe I heard somewhere, that the rule of thumb for swap space is 2
times the amount of ram you have.

But you also need to consider how much swap space you'll need in
regards to how much load you put on your system.  If you have a lot of
physical ram, and don't put much of a load on your system, then a big
swap shouldn't be necessary.

For instance, I have 96mb of ram, and a 48mb swap, but I don't put
enough load on my system that Linux ever has to swap.  In fact, most
of my applications are cached, so disk access is virtually nill.
<shrug>

Have a good one!
Matt


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