Well.. for me, the swap size depends on the size of
your physical memory and the load of your box...
like..
if yung box mo is 512MB RAM tapos konti lang ang i
rurun mong services at hinde malalakas kumain ng
memory.. well..hinde naman kailangan ng ganung kalaki
na swap space..
--- Dek Mauleon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 16 September 2001 17:28, you wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I remember somebody (was it Orly?) who said that
> with the 2.4 kernels, you
> > should either have swap space worth three times
> the physical memory, or
> > none at all. Would anyone care to validate or
> counter this? Or maybe point
> > me somewhere to read up about it?
>
> well i dunno about the 3x physical memory but if
> memory serves me right it's
> swap space = 2 x physical memory
> and if you are saying NO SWAP, thats a no no you
> can't live without swap
> either you swap to a swap partition or you swap to a
> file
> >
> > When I set up my computer I didn't know about
> this, so I have 512MB RAM
> > and 1GB swap space. I'm wondering if I can/should
> just remove the swap and
> > use that space somewhere. Why? I noticed that for
> some reason, my swap
> > always gets used:
>
> don't remove the swap :) hehe pero 1 gig sobra naman
> laki babaan mo ng konti
> heheheheh but take a look at your system find out if
> f kung kailangan mo
> talaga ng 1 gb na swap
>
> >
> > $ free -m
> > total used free
> shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 500 491 8
> 0 2 376
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 112 387
> > Swap: 972 116 855
> >
> > However, when I check my memory stats using
> phpSysInfo, only 50MB of my
> > physical memory is being used. Does this mean that
> the rest is used by
> > buffers/cache?
> want a bettter way to check this ? :)
> here's some tricks from a wannabe oldby hehehe
> depende to sa keyboard mapping mo pero the default
> us keyboard okay to
> from your console (not in X haven't tried it there)
> watch your
> /var/log/messages or where you log things
> do ctrl + scroll lock = something like ps but
> detailed
> and do a shift + scroll lock = this is like free but
> very detailed
> and there is another one hrmm alt +scroll lock = i
> forgot what it does lol (
> i dunno if this works amma research on this ulit
> kung ano silbi nito hehehe)
>
>
> > I -think- that 512MB is pretty sufficient, but
> will probaby upgrade to 1GB
> > when we can afford it. But I don't like
> applications swapping out. With
> > RAID5 the performance hit is significant. I'd also
> like to be able to use
> > that 1GB for ... more ISOs. ;>
> >
> > Comments?
> are you using those devolopment/unstable packages
> maybe meron mga nag memory leak sa kanila kaya
> masyadong malakas lumamon ng
> memory you should look pwede rin faulty hardware ..
>
>
> -Dek
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