On 3/16/06, Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > I am pretty sure that the recommendation is close to what the old SunOS-4.1.x installation guide says. Set aside swap to be 2x your actual memory for optimal performance. I am pretty sure I was pointed to that a long time ago. -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
