[Gllug] Swap file size

[David Damerell]

On Thursday, 31 Jan 2002, Darran D. Rimron-Molloy wrote:
>I have been thinking this exact same thought recently - when machines
>with 64meg of RAM were considered beefy, and 128meg was overkill,
>RAMx2=SWAP seemed sensible, considering swap partitions could only be
>127meg at this time, it also made alot of sense....
>But what is the ruling with "modern" machines?

Linus now says that swap must be >= 2xRAM; apparently the very
infrequent failures not having this can create with 2.2 kernels are
much more likely with 2.4 kernels.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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