On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:28:19PM +0000, WipeOut wrote: > My only real comment is on the swap allocation.. I think the 2 X RAM is > old school thinking from back in the day when RAM was expensive and a > highend server had 128MB of it.. If your system ever needs to used more > than about 128 - 256MB of swap space then you seriously need to a) add > more RAM or b) offload some of the services on the server to another.. Actually, the whole swap story is a strange one as far as I've seen it... In the time of kernel 2.0.x, it was indeed advised to have 2xRAM as a minimum, just for the reasons you mentioned. Later, with 2.2.x, most people agreed that "RAM+swap" should just be enough to cater for the maximum of memory usage you expect to see, ever. That's when I switched to 1xRAM. However, then 2.4.x came and suddenly, everybody suggested 2xRAM again. I remember reading about it and there was some reasoning behind it, but I don't know the details. If someone can shed some light on this, I'd appreciate it. Cheerio, Thomas -- ===> Netiquette - read it, use it: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html <=== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!"
