From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.
Date: 29 Jan 2001 15:04:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <954ste$9nh$1@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101291348330.9791-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101291452120.31258-100000@clueserver.org>
In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101291452120.31258-100000@clueserver.org>,
Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org> wrote:
>
>What is the recommended amount of swap with the 2.4.x kernels?
>
>The standard rule is usually memory x 2. (But that is more a Solaris
>superstition than anything else.)
"memory x 2" is probably a good rule. With normal usage patterns, at the
point you fully use up your swap, you _want_ the system to start killing
things off due to out-of-memory errors.
But there really is no "fixed" rule: it can depend a lot on your usage
patterns. Some people have a lot of big background processes that don't
have a big active footprint but that have a lot of "idle" pages that can
successfully be swapped out - using up tons of swap-space without
actually causing any bad behaviour.
And you might end up adding more memory..
Linus
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-29 21:51 2.4.0-test12: SiS pirq handling Linus Torvalds
2001-01-29 22:06 ` Sven Koch
2001-01-29 22:57 ` Recommended swap for 2.4.x Alan Olsen
2001-01-29 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2001-01-29 23:23 ` alex
2001-01-29 23:45 ` Mike Castle
2001-01-29 23:49 ` William T Wilson
2001-01-30 0:24 ` Kevin Krieser
2001-01-30 5:20 ` Jeff Chua
2001-01-30 19:21 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2001-01-30 1:20 ` idalton
2001-01-30 11:48 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-30 18:10 ` alex
2001-01-30 18:22 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-30 18:40 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2001-01-30 18:43 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-31 19:59 ` Russell King
2001-01-30 19:13 ` alex
2001-01-30 19:28 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-02 13:51 ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-02 22:58 ` Alan Olsen
2001-02-02 20:27 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-01-29 23:17 ` 2.4.0-test12: SiS pirq handling Aaron Tiensivu
2001-01-29 23:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-30 0:34 ` Aaron Tiensivu
2001-01-31 10:19 ` Martin Diehl
2001-01-30 1:38 ` Adam Huffman
2001-01-31 10:21 ` [PATCH] minor ne2k-pci irq fix Martin Diehl
2001-01-31 12:11 ` davej
2001-02-01 0:01 ` Martin Diehl
2001-02-01 15:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-02 16:49 ` Martin Diehl
2001-02-02 17:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-03 20:20 ` Linus Torvalds
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