On 3 Jul 2002, Darren King wrote: > I am upgrading my machine from 128MB RAM to 512 MB. Do I need to adjust > the swap? I have 256MB.
This is one of those questions that if you asked five people, you'd get five (or more) answers. I know that some versions of the kernel could have major problems if swap was not at least twice the size of physical RAM. Disk space is also pretty cheap now, with a 60G IDE costing about $100. If this is a server I'd say yes, adjust swap to twice physical RAM. The benefits would outweigh the relatively minimal resource usage. If it's a desktop and after monitoring the system for a while you notice little swap usage, I'd say you could probably get away with 512M swap. I would not recommend having less swap than physical memory.
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