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Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [plug] I need help...
>
>
> > an old rule of thumb says that your swap space is twice as much of your
ram.
> > this is *not* a rule anymore. your swap space is inversely proportional
to
> > your ram. the more ram you have the lesser of swap space it will consume
and
> > vice versa. ram/swap ratio is really depends what kind of application do
you
> > intend to run with. so, you have to know for every application how much
> > memory it will consume so that you will know how much ram and swap space
you
> > will allocate it.
> >
> > fooler.
>
> My squid proxy is using 384 RAM. The swap is 128Mb.
hi roi,
one of my squid proxies is less than what you have and not a single byte
eat my swap space.
> I heard it's ok if my
> swap will exceed 128Mb.
increasing your swap space will increase your virtual memory or total memory
space but at the expensee of its speed performance. as we all know, disk
access is pretty much slower than ram access.
> Is it true? The bigger the swap the better. Is
> this also true?
this is true only if you have no budget to buy a ram.
fooler.
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