[LARTC] Swap size

[Carlos Blanquer]

On 3/21/06, Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
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> wlagmay at yanbulink.net said:
>
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> As you've discovered, with 12GB of RAM using a 2 or 3 multiply rule is
> hardly reasonable.


Sorry?
That's a 36 GB swap ( 12 x 3 )?
So much memory at all.

Ideally you will pick a value based on testing your workload against the
> actual machine in question.  Personally, I rarely allocate more than 4GB
> of
> swap and never less than 512M with today's large disks.  If you're worried
> about performance, you can stripe swap over multiple disks or disk arrays.


That's right.

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              Carlos.
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