[Gllug] Swap file size

[Christian Smith]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Darran D. Rimron-Molloy wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Southern
>[...]
>> If I have 512MB Ram do I really use 1GB for Swap?
>
>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?

Storage is cheap. Just stick a couple of gig of swap in there and be done
with it. Unused swap has a very small overhead...

>
>	-Darran
>

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