[LARTC] Swap size

[Brett]

wlagmay at yanbulink.net wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> This is out of the topic question, but I'm hoping that you can help me. If for
> example I'm going to install a Fedora 4 64-bit with 8 to 12 Gig of physical
> memory, how much swap file of directory do I need to create?
> 

Many people on this thread are giving information which they believe to 
be true, but in most cases it isn't (having the right mix of RAM/swap, 
and having data swapped to disk, can make your computer *more* 
responsive). If you want accurate information you should visit the 
kernel mailing list and/or read the kernel source / docs). There is a 
large amount of information available on how to tune your kernel swap 
variables.

The same advice goes for squid (and how squid can best use RAM (eg: you 
*won't* make squid perform better by assigning it large amounts of RAM 
directly). There is a large amount of posts on the squid-users mailing 
list regarding swap and memory use.

HTH
Brett