I don't want to sway you away from this thread but I have been wondering about usage of linux memory for some time - I mean from the programming point of view.
>Excess RAM is not wasted in Linux, since it uses the surplus for hard drive caching. This is a pleasing thing to hear - can you please give any web page reference where I can read more on internals - I have tried some books available in our small library but they don't talk about things from the programmer's or the 'system's' point of view. regards navin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2001 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Yuriy Temnyuk Subject: Re: [newbie] Swap & Mempry On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 08:28:30 +0300, "Yuriy Temnyuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 256 Mb phisical memory, what size of Swap I must create? > > Thank, > Yuriy The general rule-of-thumb is to have a swap size of 2x RAM. However, you typically won't gain much by having over 200MB of swap. If you need to use this much swap, your hard drive would be thrashing like crazy and your system would slow to a crawl. In this case, you should really look into buying more RAM (assuming that the problem hasn't been caused by buggy software). Excess RAM is not wasted in Linux, since it uses the surplus for hard drive caching. Of course, there are exceptions. For example, servers often require large volumes of swap space, as do serious software/graphical/multimedia development workstations. For the average desktop system, however, a maximum of 200MB is plenty. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Technically, Windows is an 'operating system,' which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating." -- Dave Barry
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