swap space??

[Michael George]

On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 10:11  AM, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 09:54, Michael George wrote:
>
>>>> I thought the 256Mb limit was eliminated in the 2.4 kernels.
>>>
>>> 	It was.
>> So I can allocate as much as I wish, correct?
>
> 1024Mb currently. If you want more, set up several swap partitions.
>
>> Why not?  I have 120Gb disk and 1Gb isn't going to be noticed.  I have
>> the HDD space and I don't want to ever run short.
>
> That's really a fallacy. More than twice the size of RAM is usually
> useless, as whenever there is twice more swap than available memory
> used, the system begins to thrash so heavily just swapping and restoring
> data from swap, that it becomes unresponsive anyway.

That's good to know.  I'll keep it at a single 1Gb partition, then.  I 
really doubt we'll dig into the swap much (if at all), but it's good to 
have a cushion.

Thanks for the info!

-Michael George
  Senior Engineer, Software Development
  Aurora Video Systems, Inc.