[nzlug] Acer/DSE option

[Steve Holdoway]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:58:20 +1200
Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:

> Why are you using that much swap? Firstly, if you are swapping a lot you 
> probably need more RAM, and the recommendation is RAM size == SWAP size, 
> isn't it?
> 
> I have 1GB RAM and a 2GB swap of which I only use a few MB:
> 
I disagree, but the other way! Those rules were set when a) Having 1GB of *disk space* was huge and b) the cost of memory was orders of magnitude higher than they are today.

Also, OS's like HP used to make a copy of the running application in swap on startup so they could swap in/out fast ( until the performance hit of this p*ssed off so much of us they changed it ).

If you have a gig of ram and need swap on top of it then you're running some pretty specialised stuff, which won't normally be running on a machine like this!

I'd go for 256MB tops swap, or even live dangerously with none at all!

Steve.
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Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz>