On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 16:19 +0300, nicolas angel wrote: > Hi, i would to ask something about swap space: > > i quote from the book "How Linux Works—What Every Super-User Should > Know" > > "Reserve two to five times as much disk space as you have real memory > for swap. It doesn't make sense to go any lower, because you may > actually risk running out of memory. If you go higher and actually > intend to use all of this swap space, you will likely suffer serious > performance problems because the system will spend all of its time > swapping (a condition known as thrashing). " > > i can't understand why if create a really big swap partition i will > have a performance decrease????It seems to me > that in the worst case scenario, i will be throwing disk space > [because the system will never use the swap partition if it doesn't > need it......why this would have a negative impact on the > system......] I think a lot of documentation was written in the days of 8 megs of memory. I remember being the envy of the computer club with 16megs. At install I've just let Fedora set it up for me without asking. -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
