On Thursday 11 January 2007 19:04, Terry Eck wrote: > ... > > I have always thought that the larger the real memory the smaller the > swap space required. There are exceptions of course. In general, if > your system uses a large swap space then you need to add more memory.
There's no fixed relationship and its never strictly necessary to have any swap space at all. Rules of thumb are just that: rough, generic guidelines that may be suitable for some non-negligible fraction of installations, but which cannot possibly be optimum for all but a few particular installations. The only thing you can say for sure is that whenever the system's overall working set size exceeds the available RAM, you'll be thrashing (if swap space is available at all). And if the total RAM required exceeds available physical RAM plus swap, then the unlucky process that tries to exceed that limit will simply not be able to get the RAM allocation it requests. If it cannot explicitly handle that condition, it will be terminated. > Terry Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
