adding swap partition

[Rick Stevens]

Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote:
> 
> 
>>How do you determine the limits on the maximum swap file or partitions and
>>their total number?
> 
> 
> The convention is to make swap at *least* twice the size of your real
> memory. So if you have 512Mb RAM, then make swap 1024Mb.

Yes, but that's just a rule of thumb.  It can vary widely, depending
on what you ask the machine to do.  If you run a lot of big programs
simultaneously, you'll want more swap.
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