On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:50, Tina Wang wrote: > Dear All, > > I have box with four processors and each has DIMM of 4 Gb. How big the > swap size I should specify? FC4's default swap is 2.0 GB for this > box. > > Thank you very much for you helps. > That depends on your particular applications running on that box. Personally I think anything over 1GB of swap space is a waste. But then I don't run applications that benefit from using swap that much. In general you don't want the system to use swap at all if possible.