Just be careful setting swap to be less than RAM, if you have an operating system that will dump physical memory to swap in case of a panic (not that BSD or Solaris ever do that! <g>) On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 10:14, Dave Carlson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 19 March 2004 22:42, Samuel MacDonald wrote: > > Is there a point where more swap doesn't help? > > It's really more of an issue of determining your maximum memory load. I have > 1GB of RAM in the computer I use most often. I had fedora set the amount of > swap (was something like 800M). I have yet to see any processes swap out to > disk. Before I ran fedora, I wasn't using any swap, and had no problems. I > usually have one e-mail window open, sometimes a VMware window, and often > play UT2003 (and now UT2004). > > - -- > - -dave > > Dave Carlson <dave at math.umn.edu> > Systems Administrator (Consultant) > > 8 Vincent Hall > 612-625-4895 > > PGP Fingerprint: > C3D0 9962 1E98 B742 132D 0E1A CE11 7C4B 5309 97A7 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAXxD9zhF8S1MJl6cRAqm+AKCcCUV200tVU57Nr6hbyftEv1cnwACgniCK > 7HXs0YRPjWy3tb7wFBzT0Cc= > =847D > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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