Todd Young 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. Generally you want 2 or 3 X physical RAM. Keep in mind the 2.4.x kernels use swap more aggressively then older kernels did. I usually look at the max RAM a box can hold and double that just so that if I add RAM in the future, I don't have to scramble to find swap should I need it. If you have tons of disk, be generous with swap. For boxes that have limited phyiscal RAM (eg, laptops) generally 1 X physical RAM is sufficient. > Basically, I acquired a twin processor PII-400 system with only one > processor and a single 128MB stick of RAM (but 4 slots available). I > have since added a second processor (and new heat sinks with fans) and > filled all four slots with 128MB sticks of ECC RAM (yes the BIOS > supports ECC, isn't that cool). > > But back to my original question. I'm thinking a Gig of swap is way > overkill. I was thinking 768MB max. If you don't plan on going beyond 512MB of RAM, the 768MB should be more then enough. -- scot _______________________________________________ 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