Re: Swap space question
- From: James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:24:05 +0100
nicolas angel wrote:
Hi, i would to ask something about swap space:
i quote from the book "How Linux Works—What Every Super-User Should Know"
"Reserve two to five times as much disk space as you have real memory for
swap.
I don't know when this was published, but the early 2.4 kernels had a
reworked memory management system that meant you needed at least as much
swap as memory before swap helped at all. So 2x was a sensible default
for most users.
2.2 and earlier, and later 2.4 and all 2.6 kernels didn't have this, and
any amount of swap *could* be used.
These days, the best rule of thumb is "don't worry about it too much".
Hope this helps,
James.
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