Jamie,
Run the following script on your system under maximum load.
#!/bin/sh -
ps -o vsz -o rss | grep '[0123456789]' | \
awk '{
i += $1;
j += $2;
} END { printf(VSZ=%dK, RSS=%dK\n, i, j); }'
If you see VSZ is very close to the swap size and RSS is getting
closer to the available physical
At 08:09 PM 3/2/2004, Jamie wrote:
Is there any point in adding more than 2 Gb of swap space on an x86 if
you have 2 Gb of ram?
4GB is the virtual address limit, not the physical address limit (which is
higher) However if you're swapping a lot on a 2GB system then you're
biggest problem is
Jamie wrote:
Is there any point in adding more than 2 Gb of swap space on an x86 if
you have 2 Gb of ram?
Yes.
From what I've read, x86 can address 4 Gb of memory,
so it would seem that more than 4 Gigs of combined memory and swap space
would be wasted. Am I right?
You would be right if all of
