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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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