On Friday 17 March 2006 02:23, Leszek Matok <Lam@xxxxxx> 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. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
