[ale] Anyone know if this is true?

Tavarvess Ware tavarvessware at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 21:40:20 EDT 2011


Scott I read the ram x 2= swap in my Linux classes as well and have
generally followed that, but with memory soaring as it has lately i am
starting to rethink that.  A system 48gigs of memory would be 96 in
swap..... I wonder if te old format has changed and I haven't heard yet.
 On Oct 12, 2011 9:32 PM, "Scott Castaline" <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/12/2011 04:14 PM, planas wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 15:13 -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> >> 'Just so you all know, when determining how much space to assign to
> >> swap: Swap isn't just used for paging or virtual memory management; swap
> >> is also used by power management for suspend-to-disk (hibernation). '
> >>
> >> I seriously don't know, so I'm asking.
> >>
> >
> > I have seen that a good swap size is ~1.5x the RAM.
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> I remember from somewhere that upto 2GB use 2.0x RAM above 2GB of RAM go
> with 1:1 ratio so 4Gb RAM = 6GB swap. I don't remember why 2x on the
> first 2GB and this goes back to when 4GB was a lot on pre-configured
> retail boxes. So like Geoffrey I can't see having 18GB of swap for a
> 16GB machine.
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