From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brett Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:50:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Swap size Message-Id: <4427D15A.6090607@bookcellar.com.au> List-Id: References: <1142840644.441e5d441d095@webmail.yanbulink.net> In-Reply-To: <1142840644.441e5d441d095@webmail.yanbulink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org wlagmay@yanbulink.net wrote: > > Hi All, > > This is out of the topic question, but I'm hoping that you can help me. If for > example I'm going to install a Fedora 4 64-bit with 8 to 12 Gig of physical > memory, how much swap file of directory do I need to create? > Many people on this thread are giving information which they believe to be true, but in most cases it isn't (having the right mix of RAM/swap, and having data swapped to disk, can make your computer *more* responsive). If you want accurate information you should visit the kernel mailing list and/or read the kernel source / docs). There is a large amount of information available on how to tune your kernel swap variables. The same advice goes for squid (and how squid can best use RAM (eg: you *won't* make squid perform better by assigning it large amounts of RAM directly). There is a large amount of posts on the squid-users mailing list regarding swap and memory use. HTH Brett _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc