From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 07:14:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 07:14:36 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:58895 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 07:14:19 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Sean Hunter , Xavier Bestel Subject: Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:16:30 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3B1D5ADE.7FA50CD0@illusionary.com> <991815578.30689.1.camel@nomade> <20010606095431.C15199@dev.sportingbet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010606095431.C15199@dev.sportingbet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106061316300A.00553@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 06 June 2001 10:54, Sean Hunter wrote: > > Did you try to put twice as much swap as you have RAM ? (e.g. add a > > 512M swapfile to your box) > > This is what Linus recommended for 2.4 (swap = 2 * RAM), saying > > that anything less won't do any good: 2.4 overallocates swap even > > if it doesn't use it all. So in your case you just have enough swap > > to map your RAM, and nothing to really swap your apps. > > For large memory boxes, this is ridiculous. Should I have 8GB of > swap? And laptops with big memories and small disks. -- Daniel