Re: swapfiles & memory
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 07:12:01AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> 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.
No I don't think they should be happening either.
Please post more information. Software used, versions, timing, etc.
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