Re: OT (slightly) swap limits
On Thursday 24 April 2008 22:45:05 Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked
> questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap?
>
> Simple, right? Try answering it. Used to be the limit was 2G
> files/partitions with up to 8 partitions total. This does not apply
> anymore: I have seen customers with 32G of swap.
>
> Not wanting to talk about what they did with 32G of swap, but I am
> trying to find documentation for the limits and the rules now.
>
> For example: 2xRAM (or 1.5) is not considered valid any more is it? If
> you have 64G of ram, you need 128G of swap. But in truth I don't know
> and I am not finding much on google (lots covering the 2G OLD limit).
> What I want is documentation so I am not working off of opinion (read
> religious belief).
>
> Got any links you want to share?
>
> --
> Damon L. Chesser
> damon@damtek.com
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
Another idea would be to ask the question on the d-i mailing list. I noticed
that, if you choose to let it do an automatic partitioning of the disk, it
will size the swap partition according to ram and not to disk size. So,
someone there must know the magic formula.
Thierry
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