According to Paul Clyne: While burning my CPU.
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> Good listers
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> I have read the HOWTO on installing Linux and in it there is mention that
> your swap partition should be (20M - RamInMachine).
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> This makes good sense. However why the 20M figure ?. Is there some
> reason that a bigger swap partition should'nt be used ?. What if you have
> 32M Ram, can you therefor not have a swap partition ?. Is a (say) 30M swap
> partition better than a 4M patition (assuming you had 16M ram).
Well Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> explaned the details however in
practice different situations arise.
I have never used anything more than 32M swap on any machine i run or i have
installed for friends.
My rule of thumb is, a standard size for swap, 32M no more regardless of how
much Ram there is.
I run machines rangeing from "old crocks" 386/25SX 6Mb ram 12M swap, to my
own pride and joy, P200 64Mb ram 32M swap, (yes folks i finaly brought more
ram), what i find is that after 213 days of uptime on one machine, its a 16M
machine 16M swap, the swap never goes any higher than half its size, its a
heavaly loaded gate/router/cache machine as well.
As to Ray's comment about the old rule of thumb "swap twice the size", i
rather think thats now old hat.
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> Am I missing something _blindingly_ obvious (i'm running RH5.2 2.0.36 on a
> P100).
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> I hope my question makes sense and isn't too dumb..
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> Thanks in advance
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> Paul Clyne aka: pacman / pac
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> at play : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The future is in our hands. Which way to the future ?
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Regards Richard.
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