Re: size of swap
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 02:59:18PM -0800, mike shupp wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? Apparantly Linux can't use more than 128 M in a swap partition, even if it happens to be larger, so... You can apparantly have _several_ swap partitions, however, if you want to set them up while configuring your system. My suspician is 128 is more than ample unless you're doing something awefully interesting. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Shupp California State University, Northridge Graduate Student, Dept. of Anthropology http://www.csun.edu/~ms44278/index.htm -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Ditto, I have 128 MB of RAM and set up 128 MB of swap (6 GB of hard drive space, what can I say?). The only time I've even needed swap is when netscape leaks memory (don't keep it up for more than 5 days) or when I ran a PHP/Mysql query that returned several million records and ate up all of my RAM and swap. (I just love kill -SIGKILL) -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: size of swap
Armin Wegner wrote: Hi, I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? Thanks, Armin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null hi, the usual recommendation is to have the swap at 1.5 times your memory, but at 128MB you shouldn't ever need that much. Unless you are running an app that might need loads of swap (eg mathcad) then 64 MB is a number that is often bandied around in answer to this question. Essentially you dont want to run out of memory, but also, you dont want to use up too much disk space. (for your info, in my 40 MB RAM machine I have 50 MB swap, for your perspective. I have never used more than half of it (and that was with about 6 netscapes, X, and an mp3 encoder), although I have never run staroffice and compiled my kernel at the same time etc etc) frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries If you have enough disk space then I believe you should use 64M. My machine has 40M and there were times that 50M swap seems to be too less. I don't know if that was netscape or the fact that I had many xterms and other clients running under X. I posted about it to the list and got various answers, ranging from people saying that they are doing things similar to what I do but still need considerably less swap to people that claimed that they need a large swap area. Although currently free shows that 50M swap area is plenty, I am still not convinced that debian should not recommend setting a large swap area (128M ?) for people who can spare that much disk area.
size of swap
Hi, I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? Thanks, Armin
Re: size of swap
Armin Wegner wrote: Hi, I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? Thanks, Armin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null hi, the usual recommendation is to have the swap at 1.5 times your memory, but at 128MB you shouldn't ever need that much. Unless you are running an app that might need loads of swap (eg mathcad) then 64 MB is a number that is often bandied around in answer to this question. Essentially you dont want to run out of memory, but also, you dont want to use up too much disk space. (for your info, in my 40 MB RAM machine I have 50 MB swap, for your perspective. I have never used more than half of it (and that was with about 6 netscapes, X, and an mp3 encoder), although I have never run staroffice and compiled my kernel at the same time etc etc) frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761begin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk adr:;;;Birmingham;;;UK version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Mr x-mozilla-cpt:;-8160 fn:Frankie end:vcard
Re: size of swap
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? Apparantly Linux can't use more than 128 M in a swap partition, even if it happens to be larger, so... You can apparantly have _several_ swap partitions, however, if you want to set them up while configuring your system. My suspician is 128 is more than ample unless you're doing something awefully interesting. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Shupp California State University, Northridge Graduate Student, Dept. of Anthropology http://www.csun.edu/~ms44278/index.htm
