On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:24 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > It's recommended that your swap space should be 2x your RAM. In your > case it's .2x
Has anybody seriously made such a recommendation this millenium? In my experience, the formula doesn't really scale at all. I suppose, in certain limited applications, a huge swap space could come in handy. But I'm yet to see a desktop or server system where more than a gigabyte of swap wasn't just plain ludicrous. As for your suggestion I should have TEN gigabytes of swap space? ...why? -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
