swapfiles & memory

[Oki DZ <okidz@pindad.com>]

Hi,

On every megabyte in swapspace, how much does it take the space in the 
memory (RAM)? Is the two times the amount of memory rule basically the 
maximum? Problem is, I keep getting "Out of socket memory" error, and 
usually the system crashes (I installed lkcd, though) in less than a week. 
I have 450 meg. swap on a 129 meg. system; could that be the cause of the 
socket memory error?

I think if there's really a limit on how much you can setup for your 
swapfile, it would be better to have it so; say, when the system is 
booting, the kernel calculates the allocated swapspace and provides some 
warnings about the situation. I use 2.4.20, and as I have gathered from the 
net, such socket memory errors are not supposed to happen.

Thanks in advance,
Oki