Re: swap size
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:35:16PM -0500, patd@dahiroc.net wrote:
> a couple of days ago a was configuring a bunch of boxes with 1G ram
> and i allocated 1G of swap, because my boss said so. a co-worker then
> told me that the appropriate amount of swap to allocate should be
> twice the ram. i really don't see the point of having the swap to be
> twice the size of ram, especially since i have 1G of it. there must
> be a point of diminishing return regarding swap allocation. is there
> even a point of allocating swap on a system with 1G ram if so what's
> the magic size?
As others have said, you only need what you're going to use and the 2xRAM rule
is largely obsolete these days. As data points, I run two Linux workstations,
both are configured as development stations using WindowMaker and primarly
run Eterms, XMMS, gcc, and Netscape, plus a horde of dockapps. The one at
home is set up with 128M RAM + 128M swap; the one at work has 256M RAM and
no swap. Both work great and never have any memory shortages.
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