On Friday 22 July 2011 19:46:25 Grant wrote: > That's what I'm curious about. If some swap is good, why isn't more > better? Paul has demonstrated that a Linux system will put at least > 10GB to use and probably much more given the opportunity. Disk space > is so cheap, why isn't everyone running a 10GB or 100GB swap since > Linux will actually put it to use?
On this i5 box I have two 1TB SATA disks in RAID-1 with md and lvm2 on top. There's so much space that I was lavish with swap space: each disk has 1GB at priority 10 and 10GB at priority 1. Far too much: I've never seen more than a few hundred MB swap in use, even when compiling Firefox or OO.o. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter number 5290
