2GB swap partition limit?
Russell Coker
russell at coker.com.au
Fri Mar 17 00:52:18 UTC 2006
On Friday 17 March 2006 02:23, Leszek Matok <Lam at lam.pl> wrote:
> Dnia 17-03-2006, pią o godzinie 01:00 +1100, Russell Coker napisał(a):
> > the 2*RAM advice originated when 16M of RAM
> > was a big machine and that things are different now.
>
> Not really - iirc it appeared with Linux 2.4, which swaps more
> aggressively than 2.2. When 2.4 came out, 256 MiB of system memory was
> pretty common for small servers.
I used to run servers on Linux 1.2, 1.3, and 2.0 with amounts of RAM such as
16M for which 2*RAM worked nicely. The 2*RAM advice originated long before
2.4.
http://www.coker.com.au/performance/linux-swap.html
I've written a brief web page to give some advice on this matter, see the
above URL.
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