Re: swap space size
On Thursday 21 October 2004 03:55 pm, Gilbert, Joseph wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There is an issue that I do not fully understand that I have always
> kind of taken for rote. I was told back when I first started working
> with Unix that the swap space needed to be at least twice the size of
> physical memory in order to ensure a stable system.
>
> Is this truly the case? How big of an issue is it? What are the
> reasons behind it.
I tend to set the size of the swap partition to twice whatever the
maximum amount of RAM a particular system can take. At least, that's
my personal policy on older systems (generally Pentium II or older).
For my primary workstation, I set the swap partition to the max RAM the
board can take (An ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, which can take up to 3GB of RAM,
though I only have 1GB at the moment).
Those are just my preferences. The best way to determine what works
best for you is to simply experiment. :D
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