Re: Debian's recommendation for the size of the swap.

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

> i'm currently use 12M swap with 64M RAM, is it too few ?

Here's what you do:

$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        127660     120980       6680      21636      44904      35608
-/+ buffers/cache:      40468      87192
Swap:        25580        240      25340

I have 128 MB of RAM.  I'm using all of it but 6.6MB, but I only really
need 40MB for my applications, the rest of the 128MB is caching files
that I have used recently.  The next time I read them, they will already in
RAM and Linux won't access the disk, thus the process will be 10 times
faster.  

I'm  hardly using my swap, and almost never do.
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