Re: Swap partition size (future proofing)

[jim branagan <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Miller wrote:

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:17:38AM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
  

Personally I don't think it makes much sense in most cases (not all) to
have more than about 1GB of swap space on a system.  Again this rule of
    

I agree -- if you're swapped out so much that you need 6GB, you'll probably
die of old age before it swaps back in....

  

A lot of swap space is only useful if you have a lot of memory-hog processes sitting idle in swap space.  This is often useful for applications which take a long time to dynmically link, since they start up faster from swap. 

I configured this machine with 2G swap (1G on each of 2 drives), but I never see more than 20 meg of so in use.