> Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>
> > The old "swap size = 2x RAM" rule is no longer applicable unless you have a
>
> > very special application.
>
> This "rule" always seemed counterintuitive to me anyway.
>
> When you have very limited physical RAM you need a lot of swap space.
> When you have more than enough RAM you don't need any swap space at all.
> For a given set of applications, as RAM increases you need less swap
> space, not more. And vice versa.
The rule was "a minimum of 2 time memory". This allowed to be
able to swap between two processes consuming all of real memory.
It dates backs to PDP 11 memory management models.
Mark
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