On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:14:41 -0600 Todd Young <auditodd at comcast.net> wrote: > I read somewhere that your swap space should be double your RAM up > to 512MB, but I can't remember if that meant up to 512MB of RAM or > 512MB of swap. > > Yes, this is probably overkill for a simple Linux desktop, but hey, > it just seems cool. > > But back to my original question. I'm thinking a Gig of swap is way > overkill. I was thinking 768MB max. > > Opinions? (Let's keep this civil please.) Typically, for myself it depends on what the use of the box is going to be. If it's a web/fileserver that's older hardware, and smaller memory then I'll double it. But, my desktop has 1GB of ram in it right now. I set swap to 1.5GB. I have the disk space, so I'm not overly concerned if it's too much or not. I'm planning on doing more intensive work on my desktop, so I think even at that I should be more than enough. Now, if you're talking huge amounts of ram, say like one of the HP-UX boxes I administer at work (rp8400 w/16 processors & 32GB ram), then we set swap to around 8GB. However, the usage of that box is very high and it's swapped fairly often. However, I don't think it's swapped more than 30% except for when some development applications have gone haywire. -- Shawn "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear." -Mark Twain Ne Obliviscaris -- "Forget Not" _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list