Re: RAM and swap partition

[Chuck Gelm <nc8q@gelm.net>]

Dear Heimo:

 If you will tell the list:
EXACTLY which distribution and version of linux and
EXACTLY which kernel and
EXACTLY which applications you will be using concurrently and
EXACTLY what your system's bogo MIPS is and
EXACTLY how fast your hard drive is and
EXACTLY how much RAM you have and
EXACTLY how much data your applications will be processing,
 it may be suggested EXACTLY how much swap space you will need.

 Until then, IMHO, the answer to this topic is,

 it depends.

 Tell us what you have and what you want to do with it,
and probably several fellows will suggest how much.
;-)

HTH, Chuck

Heimo Claasen wrote:
> 
> It's still not really clear for my when and if, how much swap space is
> needed.
> 
> There had been two opinions in this thread which clearly pointed to
> none at all - surely qualified, one from own experience re
> "workstations", the other (and that was the first time I heard about
> this at all) that swap is (only?) needed when compiling and in order
> to save a crash log.
> 
> The definition of "total (virtual) memory needed" for a/one programm
> appears logical (and "natural"); but then, there should be some means
> of measurement of precisely this, in order to do some reasonable -
> and economic - decision on that workspace indeed needed.
> 
> Furthermore, it seems rational to approach this in function of the
> actual use of (or installed) applications - i.e., to define, or even
> to resize if necessary (when a memory hog is added), the swap partition
> _after_ the otherwise complete installation of the "system".
> 
> // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-12-12
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