Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Lennart Sorensen > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:18:33PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> >>> Is it? I thought it was the default. More doesn't make sense. >> >> If you have 8GB ram, 256MB swap is useless. 4 or 8GB might be useful. >> Some people work with datasets that large sometimes. If you have 32MB >> ram, 256MB swap is probably too much. > > I'm not sure swap size should be related to memory size like that. > It's more related to the amount of committed but not regularly used > memory and the performance of the swap device.
Don't forget that swap is also used for storing the system image during hibernation. It's a pretty important use case on desktop systems at least. -- Cheers, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
