Linked by David Adams on Thu 20th Nov 2008 04:19 UTC
Linux and other Unix-like operating systems use the term "swap" to describe both the act of moving memory pages between RAM and disk. It is common to use a whole partition of a hard disk for swapping. However, with the 2.6 Linux kernel, swap files are just as fast as swap partitions. Now, many admins (both Windows and Linux/UNIX) follow an old rule of thumb that your swap partition should be twice the size of your main system RAM. Let us say I’ve 32GB RAM, should I set swap space to 64 GB? Is 64 GB of swap space really required? How big should your Linux / UNIX swap space be?
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2006-12-18
Hmm, I can agree with your reasonings, but how is it with applikations that "requires" a pagefile(windows terminology)? _If_ you had 32GB of RAM and you use an app that is not going to install or whatever if you do not have a swapspace, what you recomend then?