Re: new memory = more swap?
From: duncan brown (duncanbrown_at_email.com)
Date: 03/25/04
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To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:27:07 -0500
Matt,
I have heard of systems getting doggedly slow with too much swap enabled. If this is just a work station, I wouldn't go past 256MB of swap. If you're working with huge databases, that's another issue.
-D
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Morgan <matt.morgan-fedora-list@brooklynmuseum.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:09:17 -0500
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: new memory = more swap?
> On 03/25/2004 01:50 PM, John Thompson wrote:
>
> >Craig Thomas wrote:
> >
> >>I have 256MB ram and a 502MB swap, and want to increase to 384MB
> >>ram, [i know, i know it's an old machine]. I've read in the RH
> >>manual and else where that double the amount of ram is "right". If
> >>I want more swap but don't have any unpartitioned space left, what
> >>are my options? (I do, however, have lots of free space on my
> >>drive).
> >>
> >>
> >The advice that swap=2(RAM) dates from the time when RAM was expensive and few user machines had more than 64MB.
> >
> >These days most people have plenty of RAM and thus require less swap space. I have 384MB RAM and a 256MB swap partition that is seldom more than 25% used.
> >
> >
> >
> Is it still also true, though, that swap should at a minimum = RAM (this
> is knowledge that dates back to early versions of SCO, which was weird
> anyway, I know)? If so, then having more swap than RAM may be worthwhile
> anyway, because you probably have plenty of disk space, and you might
> add RAM later (and you won't have to repartition at that point if you
> have extra swap).
>
> I realize it's also a lot easier to repartition these days, too. But I
> still like to avoid it.
>
> Can you have too much swap? (Disk space issues aside). If I have 512 Mb
> of RAM, and set up a 1Gb swap partition, did I make a mistake?
>
>
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