I will say I do use swap sometimes when I am editing a huge image or something --- there are peak times when it is required.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigel J. Andrews wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > On Friday 13 June 2003 11:55, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > Regrettably, few of the GUI installers for Linux (SuSE or Red Hat, for > > > example), include adequate swap space in their "suggested" disk formatting. > > > Some versions of some distributions do not create a swap partition at all; > > > others allocate only 130mb to this partition regardless of actual RAM. > > > > Incidentally, Red Hat as of about 7.0 began insisting on swap space at least > > as large as twice RAM size. In my case on my 512MB RAM notebook, that meant > > it wanted 1GB swap. If you upgrade your RAM you could get into trouble. In > > that case, you create a swap file on one of your other partitions that the > > kernel can use. > > I'm not sure I agree with this. To a large extent these days of cheap memory > swap space is there to give you time to notice the excessive use of it and > repair the system, since you'd normally be running everything in RAM. > > Using the old measure of twice physical memory for swap is excessive on a > decent system imo. I certainly would not allocate 1GB of swap! Well, okay, I > might if I've got a 16GB machine with the potential for an excessive > but transitory workload, or say 4-8GB machine with a few very large memory > usage processes that can be started as part of the normal work load. > > In short, imo these days swap is there to prevent valid processes dying for > lack of system memory and not to provide normal workspace for them. > > Having said all that, I haven't read the start of this thread so I've probably > missed the reason for the complaint about lack of swap space, like a problem on > a small memory system. > > > -- > Nigel J. Andrews > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: most folks find a random_page_cost between 1 or 2 is ideal > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
