[Gllug] Swap file size

John Southern john at livepublishing.co.uk
Thu Jan 31 15:28:42 UTC 2002


What size should a swapfile partition be?

Everything I read says twice the Ram size and gives examples of 32MB Ram
and 64MB Swap.
What happens as Ram increases.
Is there an upper limit to swap size that you should use and if so why?
If I have 512MB Ram do I really use 1GB for Swap?

-- 
John S


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