cant be doing much :) seriously, swap is very user dependent. I have two 1G swap partitions with a 2 G swapfile for emergencies and 1G ram, and still occasionally run out. Certain graphics, spreadsheets and other processing operations will use a lot of swap.
I think the 2*ram was designed to take a full ram dump if neccessary, and allow normal use on the original Unix systems. Also, without much swap, you will take a huge performance hit/crash if its not there when needed. BillK On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 05:59, Simon Prosser wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2004 18:55, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > As an input I question the swap being > > twice the OB ram. > I have 1024M of ram with 500M swap and it never ever gets used... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
