> I agree with that guy. 250% is a pointless figure. It really various by
> your uses and the amount of real memmory you have. By that figure, I
> should have a 1.25 Gig SWAP Partition?. My advice is same as RAM up till
> 128MB for workstation, then 128MB. Double for SERVER and cut off server at
> 512MB for 512MB too.
The number came out of a book that came with Red Hat 5.0. It also never
mentioned anyone with very much RAM (16MB was the most it seemed to talk
about). I guess 250% is good then.
It seems a little strange to me, actually. I expect that with more
physical RAM there should be a smaller swap size...
Andy Goth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://zap.to/andygoth/
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