On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 11:30:52AM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > 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.
You seem to be confusing "use of swap" with "thrashing" > 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... Yup. That was thrashinhg. > Why waste a partition when you can install a BSD on it..:-) Hehe :-) > And yes, if you can run with 1GB of swap in use, I would be willing > to look at the hardware.. in amusement..;-) At many times (like right now) I have 175MB of swap in use. System is as responsive as ever. True, starting a new memory-hungry process will be a bit slow... But no sweat until thrashing occurs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrashing -- Vipul Mathur vipul[at]linux-delhi.org http://www.vipulmathur.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- 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
