Re: More than 2 Gb of swap

On 30 Oct 2006 01:19:17 -0800, s45_nospam@xxxxxxx
<sylvain.berthier@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

On a system with Linux RedHat AS 3.0 (kernel 2.4.21-20.ELsmp) with an
AMD Opteron, I have got 4 GB of RAM and 8 GB of swap. These 8 GB of
swap are on only one partition.

Do you really need that much swap? Are you just blindly following an
old recommendation to have swap = ram * 2 ?


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