A few questions

[Kerry Hoath]

This is a good rule of thumb but it is not totally true.
Version 0 swap partitions are limited to 128-megs because
the first 4k is used as an index as to what swap pages
are in use and 4k is the page size on the Intel architecture.
Version 1 swap can be much larger >128megs. Note that
version 0 can have up to 8 chunks of 128-megs with 2gb swap max I think or at least 4 chunks can be in use.

Regards, Kerry.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:39:38PM +0100, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> the actual rule as far as i know is:
> allocate twice as much swap as physical memory
> minimum swap size should be 16mb
> maximum size should be 128mb
> so if you have 4mb use 16mb, if 32 mb use 64mb, if 256mb then 128mb.
> hope this helps.
> saqib
> 
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> > Hi all,
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> > My computer guru says that when allocating swap, to allocate twice as
> > much swap as you have memory.  He says it is a rule of thumb learned
> > from years of running networks and dealing with computers in a company
> > setting.
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