Re: Swap issue?

Davide Bianchi wrote:
On 2008-07-22, howa <howachen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1. I have 4GB memory, people used to suggest I should set around 2GB
to 4GB for swap partition.

If your system uses swap, it means that it lack real ram. Theoretically,
swap should not be used at all.

Not really true. It can safely swap out processes that are sitting idle, taking up ram but not doing something at the moment, like that browser window you have open while you are reading your news. That way, it can sometimes survive an overloaded situation.

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David L. Johnson

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