On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:02:11PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > On May 3, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >Since it's a pain to add swap later you want to make > >allowances for future expansion (e.g. you'd need 32GB of swap if you > >ever plan to add 32GB of RAM). > > I understand that people recommend as much swap as you have ram or > more. However, is this required and why? I have a dual opteron > system running i386 5.3-release (with released patches) and it has > 4GB RAM and only 2GB of swap, which is hardly ever touched, and when > it is, just in small amounts. > > Why is this a problem? (If it ever needs the 2gb of swap I am in > trouble as the load at that time would be sky high and the machine > not really responsive anyway)
I explained in my email..you need it to dump the kernel. Kris
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