On Sunday 24 Jul 2005 10:32 am, Raj Mathur wrote: > 4. Depending on disk space available, allot 1 to 2G for swap. This is > for emergencies only -- if you find a machine using up 1G of swap it's > time to look at the apps you're running and/or the hardware you're > running them on.
I wont recommend more than 128MB swap in any situation. In my experience if more than 20-30 MB swap is in use, the home desktops are so dead on their knees that one would rather reboot than expect it to recover. I once tried installing Oracle9i on a 256MB RAM+256MB Swap machine and the only time I saw Java consuming 245MB of swap. It took over three hours to recover the machine. And it wasn't fun... Even 128MB is too much. More like 64 MB would do. For which a swap file is better than a swap partition. Why waste a partition when you can install a BSD on it..:-) And yes, if you can run with 1GB of swap in use, I would be willing to look at the hardware.. in amusement..;-) Shridhar ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
