[Gllug] Linux - big not small

[John Winters]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 20:16 +0100, Ian Northeast wrote:
> Jason Clifford wrote:
> 
> > Now that vast amounts of RAM are cheap (hands up all those with 1GB or 
> > more of RAM on their desktop box) I'd say that no more than 1x physical 
> > memory is appropriate. If it were not for the fact that storage is also 
> > dirt cheap I'd suggest that .25 or .5 memory is reasonable.
> 
> I generally go for 1G of swap regardless of how much memory there is and 
> consider that if it starts using it it needs more memory.

I find that no matter how much RAM there is, if the system is up for a
decent length of time than a little bit of swap will get used.  This is
a Good Thing(TM).  Without the swap, chunks of RAM would be used to
store code and data which is never ever used.  By having the swap, this
stuff can be moved out and the RAM can be used for more constructive
purposes - even if only as a disk cache.  This is true no matter how
much RAM you have.

John

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