Re: Simple kernel question

[Emmanuel Seyman <seyman moe acticiel com>]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:00:19PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
>
> Hmm... I've only got 1.5:1 ratio of swap to ram. 'Course, considering I have 
> about 256 megs of swap.... I don't seriously think that Linus suggests we 
> have a GIG of swap if we've got a half-gig of ram... 

I believe the idea is to be able to swap even after all data from RAM
is dumped to swap. This implies a 1+:1 ration between swap and RAM
and people seem to have settled on 1+ = 2 .
Unless you're working on an early 2.4 kernel and doing something which
re, a 1:1 ratio should be more than sufficient.

Emmanuel