Swap space question

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat Sep 30 18:05:37 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 08:56 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:

> 
> The solution is to have more physical memory.
> 
> The rule of thumb to which I am accustomed is to have twice as much
> swap space as physical memory. Of late I have been pushing
> that. However the fact that I can get away with it doesn't say much,
> because I have so much physical memory that I use very little swap
> space.

Just for the helluvit I just checked to see what FC5 used for swap
space. Just a tad over a gig. I have two gigs of memory. Sounds good? Or
is it actually too much disk swap? Ric
 
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