RE: Swap

[Uncle Meat <kcsmart worldinter net>]

On 28-Aug-99 Aaron opined:
> With all this talk about swap
> 
> I was curious as to what benefits people have been getting out of
> more swap space
> 
> I can imagine what they might be
> 
> but how does that relate to performance?
> 
> I have 128m of swap and 128m of real ram 
> 
> but I have enough disk to add another 128m of swap, but does it
> really help that much?  I don't have problems running out of swap so
> I wouldn't think I needed more, but does having multiple help any?

In my own case I see little or no difference. I added more to get it to
200MB because I had a program that wouldn't compile. I watched while it
tried and it ate every bit of swap right before it errored-out. I had
~64MB at the time, using 96M hard ram. I upped my swap to ~190 and got
the same error. Upped it to 200 and it used 192 and compiled cleanly.

I've kept a couple of extra swap files around ever since. I also
routinely keep 200 mounted.

Other than that, I seem to never have any shortage of free space when
doing typical things.

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