[Gllug] Swap file size

Simon Stewart sms at lateral.net
Thu Jan 31 15:47:38 UTC 2002


On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:28:42PM +0000, John Southern wrote:
> What size should a swapfile partition be?

What do you want to use your computer for? I would suggest that a
webserver would need to have no swap at all --- or at the very least
have it on a seperate drive to the one that your site(s) is/are on ---
whereas, for a desktop machine, having some swap is prolly a Good
Thing.

Cheers,

Simon

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