[plug] Partitioning Hard Disk

[Trevor Phillips]

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 22:30, William Kenworthy wrote:
> 2xRAM for swap is a rule of thumb - for instance, it is easy to make
> gnumeric use nearly 2G of memory/swap with large spreadsheets!  Some

I've never understood the 2xRAM rule. Ok, I understand it for SOME memory 
models, but I didn't think it applied to 2.4 kernels.

I mean, if you've only got 16Mb of RAM, wouldn't you still be better off 
having 500Mb or more swap? OTOH, we have servers with 1Gig of RAM that rarely 
use swap (usually takes a runaway process to do it), and we only have 1Gig of 
swap for them, which is overkill. Heck, for servers, you don't WANT to be 
regularly swapping stuff. Swap is for storing unused excess memory usage, and 
as a way of being able to run things that require more RAM than you have, is 
it not?

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