On 17 February 2010 22:41, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Feb 17, 2010, at 09:55, Sam Kuper wrote: > > > Now, I've just had a look in /var/vm . It contains a dozen swapfiles of > 67108864 bytes each, plus a sleepimage file of 2147483648 bytes. I've no > idea whether this is normal or not, though: I've never looked in that > directory before. > > Sounds pretty normal to me. 67108864 bytes is 64MB; a dozen of them is > 768MB. As long as the amount of swap space is not larger than the amount of > physical RAM installed in your computer, you should be fine. Once your swap > exceeds physical RAM, things start getting slow. > OK. Randal seemed to think things tend to get slow when swap is around 2/3 of physical RAM. I'll bear in mind his advice and yours, and will keep an eye on swap if things begin to slow down. > The sleepimage is always present and always the exact size of your physical > RAM. > That was my expectation, but it's nice to have it confirmed. Thanks again, Sam
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