Re: [Cooker] 4GB physical ram: need swap space?

[Eaon]

On 24 Mar 2001 18:59:48 +0100, Pixel wrote:
> swap size should be mainly based on how the box is used, not on how many ram
> you have. On a desktop, you don't need much swap... except if you don't have
> many memory, just the opposite as the rule 2*memsize. It's more like
> swapsize = 300MB - swapsize.
> 
> diskdrake doesn't take the ramsize into account and will never do!
> 


That's cool.  I had always wondered what "the rule" was or if there was
one at all.  I know in WinNT the rule is swap should be physical+11MB
(the 11 MB being for debugging info if (when) the system crashes, I
think).  I didn't know if Linux has similar rules.  Is there a HOWTO on
this subject?

Eaon