OT: Swap File Sizes

[Janina Sajka]

But, doesn't it diminish in usefulness at some point? Would you create a
2Gb swap partition on a machine with 1Gb of RAM?

I'm currently running with no swap and have seen no ill effects (as far
as I know, anyway). This includes running several simultaneous compiles
where top reports RAM usage up in the 90% range.

Id like to see a definitive HOWTO on swap under current computing
conditions. Everything I've run across seems to have been written with
16Mb, or 32Mb systems in mind.

Barry Pollock writes:
> From: Barry Pollock <barryp at mail.hurontel.on.ca>
> 
> 
> It is a matter of prefference for swap size.
> It depends on what you wish.
> You can make the swap size twice the ram.
>  The system can use up to 8 times the ram size.
> 512 meg would be the most efficient for 256 meg of ram
> Barry
> 
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