I don't agree about the 2x problem. I have 384Megs of Ram and a 128Meg swap file running M8 and it runs fine. I also had at one stage 384Megs of Ram and 64Meg swap file and it ran fine as well. IMHO the total about of ram (actual ram and swap file combined) varies between machines and what that machine does. if some one is simply going to use koffice then 256Megs of ram with no swap should be fine, A quake 3 server will need more ram and a swap IMHO for most workstations I say get about 512megs of total ram (preferbily all ram, but if not make the remainder up from swap).
___________________________________________ Robert MacLean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Spencer Collyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Swap & Mempry > On Wednesday 03 October 2001 06:50, you wrote: > > 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. > > I've seen conflicting reports about this on this and other lists. Some > say that anything over 200MB is not going to be useful, but others > saying that there is a pathological condition in the 2.4 kernels (which > is being worked on) that can cause system hangs if your swap is not 2x > your physical memory. > > I've got 512MB physical memory, and a swap partition of 250MB at > present. Since upgrading to LM8.0 I've had the machine lock up totally > once (necessitating the reset button), so I've been thinking about > creating another 800MB of swap to get to the '2x physical' > recommendation. This would go on my secondary 80gig disk, so finding > the space is not a problem, but is it worth going with this or not? > > TIA > > S> > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > <<< Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines >>> > Remove the fruit to obtain reply address: > spencer at lasermount orange dot uklinux dot net > 8:29am up 16 days, 20:46, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.01 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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