Re: Simple kernel question

[John Aldrich <john chattanooga net>]

On Wednesday 01 August 2001 01:00 pm, you wrote:
> 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.
>
Yeah. I've got an uptime of only 4 days at this point (Electric isn't totally 
stable here, and my system has a tendancy to reboot, despite the UPS! *sigh*) 
and my "free" reports:
Swap:       256952      53788     203164  
So you can see I'm not terribly worried about running out of swap space, even 
with a load average around 2.5 (dual-processor system running 2 instances of 
SETI HOME plus my normal activities! <G>)
	John