This has me curious. If I don't need much swap, should I not make much swap? Or is there no upper limit? If it's the more the marrier, why not always just make, say, 500MB? I personally have a PIII 866 with 256MB of RAM. What should my swap size be? On a sidenote, why does it show up when it boots (BIOS not Linux) as 262,XXX kB? Just curious... Peace, Isaac "Upgrade your brain matter, cuz one day it may matter..." - Del tha Funky Homosapien, of the Deltron 3030 project http://www.hieroglyphics.com/features/deltron_3030/ Quoting "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > i just checked my stats for memory usage, and i have 288mg ram and a > 250mg > > swap space. however, my swap is using 0% and my memory is listed at > using > > 90%. how do i tell LM 8.0 to use more swap space than ram? > > That 90% is also used for disk buffers and virtual memory cache as well > as > actual ram used for programs and data. Ordinarily, with that much RAM, > you > shouldn't use any swap, save for a few little-used programs that get > part > of their memory space paged out from time to time. I have 256 megs of > RAM > and normally have about 15-20megs in swap, unless I launch some really > big > programs that make other processes swap parts of themselves out. > > You don't want to favor swap (although some recent kernels tended to > do > this) because swap is much slower than RAM. But swap is also useful > when > you want to run large processes, since the kernel can swap out some > sleeping processes (or parts of them) to disk, which frees up more RAM > for > the processes that need it. > > In general, Linux does the "right thing" when managing RAM and swap > resources. > > > thanks, Dave > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > David E. Fox Thanks for letting me > [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
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