Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit
Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:13:39 +0200 (MEST)
Xavier Bestel wrote:
[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> Le 08 Mar 2001 14:05:25 +0100, Goswin Brederlow a _crit :
>
> > I believe the 2xRAM rule comes from the OS's where ram was only buffer
> > for the swap. So with 1xRAM you had a running system with 1xRAM
> > memory, so nothing is gained by that much swap.
>
> I think kernels 2.4.x came back to this behavior.
>
> > On Linux any swap adds to the memory pool, so 1xRAM would be
> > equivalent to 2xRAM with the old old OS's.
>
> no more true AFAIK
I've always been trying to convice people that 2x RAM remains a good
rule-of-thumb.
Rogier.
--
** R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2137555 **
*-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --*
* There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots.
* There are also old, bald pilots.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/