From: Richard Freeman <rich@thefreemanclan.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] What should the swap size be for 4G ram?
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:15:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F53191.8040204@thefreemanclan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F48A5E.9050703@singnet.com.sg>
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P.V.Anthony wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Please ignore this email. It looks like I have asked something similar
> to this before. I will read the old thread.
>
That's Ok, I got a chuckle out of it. You have Duncan who doesn't use
swap at all (I think), and you have me:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2058448 2041388 17060 0 82084 420860
- -/+ buffers/cache: 1538444 520004
Swap: 17514480 1152972 16361508
I guess there is a happy medium. But what else am I going to do with
that odd space that doesn't fit easily into a RAID-5? I figure that if
the kernel can find a use for it I might as well let it... :) I
probably have 50G more of unpartitioned space lying around since I've
installed my 2 RAID-5s on non-identical drives. I guess I'll just have
to wait until ZFS takes off on linux... :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-22 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-22 3:16 [gentoo-amd64] What should the swap size be for 4G ram? P.V.Anthony
2007-09-22 3:22 ` P.V.Anthony
2007-09-22 15:15 ` Richard Freeman [this message]
2007-09-22 15:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-09-22 16:24 ` B Vance
2007-09-22 17:23 ` Richard Freeman
2007-09-22 17:23 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-09-22 20:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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