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Subject: Re: SWAP size
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On Monday 28 April 2003 10:54, Piotr Rybicki wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> In man tuning(7) we read, that swap size should be about 2x main memmory
> size. Why swap size should be so big? Isn't swap size equal to main memmo=
ry
> size enough?

IMHO the swapsize=3D2x phys. mem size has always been just a rule of thumb.=
 You=20
need as much swap as you need (doh). But so far, the memory requirements of=
=20
software have pretty much grown proportionally with the availibility /=20
affordability of bigger sticks of memory and thus the rule of thumb still=20
makes sense. YMMV.

=2D-=20
Regards,
	Michael Nottebrock

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