Re: swap space size
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"Gilbert, Joseph" <jgilbert@insuresuite.com> writes:
> 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.
Well, that used to be the rule of thumb for a Linux-specific problem
with swap space. Today, you can run without swap without a problem.
I keep a gig of swap on hand to avoid out of memory problems at all
costs and have never hit that.
A sane default today would be to set your swap size to at least the
size of your current physical memory. I suggest using a swap space
equivilent to the maximum amount of memory your board can support,
though this is generally considered massive overkill given how cheap
RAM is these days.
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