Peter
You can monitor paging space usage, and add more if you need it.
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Dave Brown Austin, TX
> A rule of thumb will probably come off if you suck your thumb long
> enough. But some people like to waste disk space, and it is pretty cheap
> now. The 2x rule was probably appropriate back when people had 16MB or
> 32MB machines
As good a rule as any, I guess.
Anyway, once you start using swap, you're pretty well hosed performance
wise, so you need enough to run the system while you shut down the
ofending app.
256MB works for me, and it happens to equal /boot. (yes I like a big
boot partition.) :-)
--Yan
> Anyway, once you start using swap, you're pretty well hosed performance
> wise, so you need enough to run the system while you shut down the
> ofending app.
> 256MB works for me, and it happens to equal /boot. (yes I like a big
> boot partition.) :-)
rgds
-z
> A rule of thumb will probably come off if you suck your thumb long enough.
> But some people like to waste disk space, and it is pretty cheap now.
> The 2x rule was probably appropriate back when people had 16MB or 32MB
> machines. I used to stick with 128 MB, but since the 2.4 kernel had
> paging problems, I upped it to 256MB. Since I don't try to run dozens of
> memory-hogging applications at once, I almost never invade paging space.
The best way for a home user is to prolly have something like
64-128Megs of swap on a fast disk, and then monitor how much swap is
being used when you do something very intensive on a machine, like
running kernel compile+something pretty intensive at the same time. I
have 200 megs of swap because i compile a lot of stuff, and don't have
enough RAM :?
rgds
-z
> --
> Keith Gamard
>> Hi,
>> How much size for swap space is appropritate for Pentium-4 1.7G, 256 MB
>> memory ?
>> thanks
Cheers,
Luminary.
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"Only choice is an oxymoron."
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