new memory = more swap?

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Mar 26 01:31:20 UTC 2004



Kevin Krieser wrote:

>I have 1 GB RAM on my Linux box, and 2 GB swap (0 of which is used).
>But with 260GB of disk space on the computer, why not?  I may want to
>run a program that uses 2 GB sometime.
>
>  
>
In my experience, using a large database and a complex query is likely 
the only time that large amounts of swap will be used.






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