[Nottingham] size of swap partition

[BUNTER MATTHEW]

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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 02:36:25 -0800
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] size of swap partition


>A case in point is a system that I have with 1gb of
>ram  (redhat 7.3)

>Mem:  1030676K av,  941356K used,   89320K free,
>0K shrd,  188652K buff
>Swap: 2097136K av,     976K used, 2096160K free
>          618692K cached

>Even after 2 days it's started to use swap, so as you
>can see a system will use swap even if there is Mem
>free. I have also noticed that the longer the system
>is running the more swap it use's (although it's yet
>to use more than 5%).

>James D

James,

You choose to go with 2 x RAM I see, I think that I shall just use
1 G swap since it will be a low level web server, database server
and with only me logging on to do any actual work.

Matt

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