Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-10,: Re: Swap area: why not more than 128M each?

# Re: Swap area: why not more than 128M each?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 18:27:03 +0000 (GMT)

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> > Not to sound like a dork, but why edo you need a gig of swap? just curious
> > :)
>
> Rule of thumb: swap >= 4 * physical_memory

Not always a good one. Unless you have an extremely good I/O subsystem or
specific high memory use high referential locality tasks its at most 2 or 3
you want.

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