At the risk of being an AOL user, me too. The rule is "Make sure your real ram is at least a third of what you need", not "You need three times what you have".
Regards, ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Anthon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 2:37 PM Subject: RE: Swap space question > > When I first installed Debian Sparc from the CD, I partitioned a Gig > > of Swap space since I have half a Gig of Ram. The Slink kernel would > > I have often seen this "rule of thumb" used in this way and I believe that > it has long been misinterpreted. The rule that I am talking about is "you > need at least twice the amount of swap space as you have RAM". > > I am pretty sure that the original interpretation of this rule was more > along the lines of "determine how much memory you will need to run > everything you need to run, then make sure that at least 1/3 of that is > physical RAM". > > The intention here is a trade off between system performance and cost. > Hardware has, however, progressed to a point where this rule is pretty much > useless for normal systems. If you are running a machine with 512M of RAM, > then you probably don't really need to configure any swap space at all > unless the machine will need it for running a big database or some other > memory hungry application. That 1G of swap space could be used for a much > better purpose (like storing 1G of pron or mp3s.. hehe). If you ever really > do need the extra memory, simple create a swap partition and use swapon as > the need arises. > > Just my $0.02 (+10%GST) worth. > > Regards > Michael Anthon > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
