Re: Swap

[Chris Albertson <calbertson logicon com>]

The only problem with to small a swap space is that you may run out
of swap.  There is no penalty at all with a small swap until you hit
that limit.  In Linux the total amount of memory that the system sees
is physical RAM plus swap space.  The bigger the _total_ the more or
the bigger the programs you can run.  In the best case you would have
more RAM than you need and NO swap at all.

For most normal desktop stuff a _total_ ram+swap or about 200MB works
fine.  The more of that total that is real RAM the faster you will go.



Aaron wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> Aaron
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