[ale] Q: Should Linux swap space depend on number of users?

John Mills johnmills at speakeasy.net
Mon Jul 5 21:45:38 EDT 2004


Usage Gurus -

Is swap space shared between users? If so, should one allow more swap when
expecting to support a number of users compared to only one or two at a
time? I suppose it doesn't scale simply with user count because a _lot_ of
processes run the same number of instances regardless of the number of
users, but should there be some allowance?

TIA for any comments.

 - John Mills
   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu



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