From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: gars@lanm-pc.com
Subject: Swap size for a machine with 2GB of memory
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 02:42:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010819024233.A26916@thyrsus.com> (raw)
The Red Hat installation manual claims that the size of the swap partition
should be twice the size of physical memory, but no more than 128MB.
The screaming hotrod machine Gary Sandine and I built around the Tyan S2464
has 2GB of physical memory. Should I believe the above formula? If not,
is there a more correct one for calculating needed swap on machines with
very large memory?
(No further hangs, BTW.)
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next reply other threads:[~2001-08-19 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-19 6:42 Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2001-08-19 8:25 ` Swap size for a machine with 2GB of memory Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-08-19 9:46 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-08-19 16:15 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-08-19 14:08 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-19 16:48 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-08-19 14:39 ` Steven Cole
2001-08-19 17:29 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-08-19 15:52 ` Steven Cole
2001-08-19 22:16 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-08-19 20:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-19 21:15 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-08-20 0:05 ` Kevin Krieser
2001-08-20 17:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-20 23:09 ` Kevin Krieser
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-20 0:08 Andries.Brouwer
2001-08-21 23:14 ` Kurt Garloff
2001-08-24 12:45 ` Rogier Wolff
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