[K12OSN] Quick Question about Swap partitions

[James P. Kinney III]

x2 up to 2GB swap total. The kernel doesn't use more than 2GB anyway.

The swap used by the thin clients is different and handled by the
ltspswapd. It stores data in the /opt/ltsp space (by default).

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 08:40 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> How big should they be?  I have read places that too large of a Swap partition is bad, I
> have also read that a good rule of thumb is to make your swap partition twice the size
> of your RAM.  In my case I have 16GB of RAM.  Does that mean I should have 32GB swap
> partitions?  Also most recommendations for swap partition sizes are for single user
> machines (Desktops).  In the case of LTSP we have many users on one machine (108 in my
> current case).  So is the swap size dependent also on how many concurrent users are
> accessing files?  
> 
> If anyone could point out a good way of determining swap size for LTSP servers I would
> appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim Kronebusch
> Cotter Tech Department
> 453-5188
> 
> 
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