swap byte size?!

[kalin mintchev]

> Just what are you planning to run?

it's a mail server - a lot of users a lot of spam...
the thing is there was a healthy swap partition on a disk that died last
night and i don't have any free space left on the main disk. i already did
a smaller size 128 swap file and it's being used although not in full -
it's getting there. but i don't want to risk it so i'd like at least 1 gig
of swap...

i just need to know if my numbers for bs and count a correct...

thanks...

>
> When I had 2 gig of swap for my 1 gig system, I hardly ever went to swap
> with my home workload.
>
> As an experiment, I've gone about a month now running with no swap, and
> I haven't had any issues.
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:48 PM
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> Subject: swap byte size?!
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>
> hi all...  this is probably a stupid question but anyway..
>
> i want to add a swap file to my system. following the rule of 2 to 1 the
> file would need to be 2 gigs because the ram is a gig. but using the dd
> command what do i put for bs and count? i was looking around on google
> but couldn't exactly find it..
>
> thanks a lot...
>
>
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