On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Mike Hardy wrote: > There are those that think if they size the machine correctly, they > shouldn't need swap, and they're right. bingo > > I had 8 Meg of swap space. So 12 meg total available virtual memory. > > One day I added 16 Meg of RAM. So now I had 20 Meg of RAM. I deleted my > > swap space. Everyone told me I needed 20-40 Meg of swap space now! Swap > > space should be 2 time RAM size. How crazy, my memory requirements did not > > change, just the amount of memory. I used that system for a year or so like > > that. Go figure! the silly rule of 2x size of RAM == swap space came from the old days when memory was 10x the costs of disks or some silly cost performance that it made sense when grandpa was floating around by todays ram and disk pricing ... and cpu speeds ...2x memory sorta goes out the door c ya alvin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
