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Matthew Miller wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:17:38AM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Personally I don't think it makes much sense in most cases (not all) to
have more than about 1GB of swap space on a system. Again this rule of
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I agree -- if you're swapped out so much that you need 6GB, you'll probably
die of old age before it swaps back in....
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A lot of swap space is only useful if you have a lot of memory-hog
processes sitting idle in swap space. This is often useful for
applications which take a long time to dynmically link, since they
start up faster from swap. <br>
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I configured this machine with 2G swap (1G on each of 2 drives), but I
never see more than 20 meg of so in use.<br>
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