From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IYvii-0007rv-ER for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:31:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8M3M9Qj024683; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:22:09 GMT Received: from smtp41.singnet.com.sg (smtp41.singnet.com.sg [165.21.103.142]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8M3M74D024678 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:22:08 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.101] (bb121-6-72-84.singnet.com.sg [121.6.72.84]) by smtp41.singnet.com.sg (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8M3M61F018100 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:22:07 +0800 Message-ID: <46F48A5E.9050703@singnet.com.sg> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:22:06 +0800 From: "P.V.Anthony" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] What should the swap size be for 4G ram? References: <46F488FA.5070104@singnet.com.sg> In-Reply-To: <46F488FA.5070104@singnet.com.sg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ef58a0d3-9aef-4622-9dbf-859b81ba44d0 X-Archives-Hash: bd777c71943242b52925109f76a1ad63 On this day, 22-September-2007 11:16 AM, P.V.Anthony wrote: > Hi, > > Installing gentoo amd64 on a Supermicro PDSMi+. > > It is using 4G ram and Intel Xeon x3220 with 4 cores. > > Not sure how much of swap that should be allocated. > > If following the old rule, 8G should be allocated for swap. I feel that > is too much. Does 2.6 kernel really need so much of swap with 4G of ram? > > Was thinking of just using a 1G swap file for safety. Please share some > thoughts on the this swap size issue. > > P.V.Anthony Please ignore this email. It looks like I have asked something similar to this before. I will read the old thread. Sorry for the noise. P.V.Anthony -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list