On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:12:46PM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > 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. Well it is not clear if you can get away with no swap but with 4 processors each having 4G of RAM your swap should be minimal in most applications but you can try a swap partition of a given size and if it looks like more swap is useful you can always add swap in the form of one or more swap files. There was a time that swap files were slower than swap partitions but people say that difference in access speed has been erased so adding swap is easy to do. -- ======================================================================= That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. -- Bill Veeck ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
