On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Roberto Ragusa <[email protected]>wrote:
> Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Rahul Tidke <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I am configuring a server with 3 GB of RAM; how much swap partition > > size should I allocate. I think allocating twice of RAM will be > > waste of HDD space. What is the standard. > > > > If you intend to hibernate, then you need at least the same size of the > ram. > > And then consider that you may want to hibernate even when the > machine is already using some swap. > > I think that if you have 3GB of RAM you have more than 100GB of HD space. > Maybe a lot more, as you say it's a server. > I'd go for 5GB. > > As I said before, one can always use an extra swap area via a file. But if a server would ever need a 5GB of swap, then it is time to buy more ram. The amount of "data + programs running" should not exceed the amount of available ram, if one wants a decent performance on a server: http://www.linux.com/feature/121916 -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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