> Just what are you planning to run? it's a mail server - a lot of users a lot of spam... the thing is there was a healthy swap partition on a disk that died last night and i don't have any free space left on the main disk. i already did a smaller size 128 swap file and it's being used although not in full - it's getting there. but i don't want to risk it so i'd like at least 1 gig of swap... i just need to know if my numbers for bs and count a correct... thanks... > > When I had 2 gig of swap for my 1 gig system, I hardly ever went to swap > with my home workload. > > As an experiment, I've gone about a month now running with no swap, and > I haven't had any issues. > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kalin mintchev > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:48 PM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: swap byte size?! > > > hi all... this is probably a stupid question but anyway.. > > i want to add a swap file to my system. following the rule of 2 to 1 the > file would need to be 2 gigs because the ram is a gig. but using the dd > command what do i put for bs and count? i was looking around on google > but couldn't exactly find it.. > > thanks a lot... > > > > -- > Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. (Linus Torvalds) > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. (Linus Torvalds) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
