On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Andrew Hume <[email protected]>wrote:
> i know, i know. this is an old chestnut. > we used to have swap 2-3x main memory, > but nowadays the wisdom is that that old rule > is no longer applicable. (this is on RHE5.) > so here i am, with a 128GB memory system with 16GB of swap. > and here i am, killing the system by running it out of swap. > > my observation is that if i have large memory, i will use it. > (to say nothing of memory leaks etc.) > and if i have a few multiple large memory processes, > why wouldn't i want swap sized at 2-3x memory? > So you are proposing 384GB of swap?
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