swap space

[Scot L. Harris]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:50, Tina Wang wrote:
> Dear All,
>  
> I have box with four processors and each has DIMM of 4 Gb. How big the
> swap size I should specify?  FC4's default swap is 2.0 GB for this
> box.
>  
> Thank you very much for you helps.
>  
That depends on your particular applications running on that box. 
Personally I think anything over 1GB of swap space is a waste.  But then
I don't run applications that benefit from using swap that much.  In
general you don't want the system to use swap at all if possible.