Matt, I have heard of systems getting doggedly slow with too much swap enabled. If this is just a work station, I wouldn't go past 256MB of swap. If you're working with huge databases, that's another issue. -D ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt Morgan <matt.morgan-fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:09:17 -0500 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: new memory = more swap? > On 03/25/2004 01:50 PM, John Thompson wrote: > > >Craig Thomas wrote: > > > >>I have 256MB ram and a 502MB swap, and want to increase to 384MB > >>ram, [i know, i know it's an old machine]. I've read in the RH > >>manual and else where that double the amount of ram is "right". If > >>I want more swap but don't have any unpartitioned space left, what > >>are my options? (I do, however, have lots of free space on my > >>drive). > >> > >> > >The advice that swap=2(RAM) dates from the time when RAM was expensive and few user machines had more than 64MB. > > > >These days most people have plenty of RAM and thus require less swap space. I have 384MB RAM and a 256MB swap partition that is seldom more than 25% used. > > > > > > > Is it still also true, though, that swap should at a minimum = RAM (this > is knowledge that dates back to early versions of SCO, which was weird > anyway, I know)? If so, then having more swap than RAM may be worthwhile > anyway, because you probably have plenty of disk space, and you might > add RAM later (and you won't have to repartition at that point if you > have extra swap). > > I realize it's also a lot easier to repartition these days, too. But I > still like to avoid it. > > Can you have too much swap? (Disk space issues aside). If I have 512 Mb > of RAM, and set up a 1Gb swap partition, did I make a mistake? > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > +( duncan brown +( duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxx +( http://www.linuxadvocate.net she's crashing her car in an intersection she did not see the light she's walking round and round in a shopping mall as if she had no sight dreams are only clouds that form and dissipate the sky is a highway for metal birds and land is real estate she does not understand her world depends upon a history of lies she walks right by all her old high school friends for she has dollar signs in her eyes - the dead milkmen, "dollar signs in her eyes"
