To swap or not to swap that is the question

[tlyons at digitalvoodoo.org (Tim Lyons)]

I have always used 2.5 x physical RAM as the rule of thumb.  However, with 
that said I would not create a swap that was less than 128MB.

32 = 80MB (128MB)
64 = 160MB
128= 320MB
etc, etc, etc....

HTH,
--Tim



On Monday 07 October 2002 12:09, billhorne at attbi.com wrote:
> > Someone sent me email regarding swap space. He mentioned that on memory
> > larger than 512M, one does not need swap. I disagree, but I would like to
> > get some educated opinion on this.
> > Historically, one would configure swap to be 3 X memory. However today
> > with memories typically larger than 100MB, this has changed. Certainly on
> > different types of systems, swap configuration decisions would be
> > different, such as a web or email server where you may have a large
> > number of processes or threads.
>
> I'd like to get a figure for lower end desktop systems, running
> 32, 64, or 128MB of RAM.
>
> Bill Horne
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