Subject: Re: Maximum supported memory
From: Michael A. Peters (Moonglue@141.com )
Date: Thu Aug 10 2000 - 14:54:33 MDT
>At 11:09 PM -0500 8/10/00, Howard Shere wrote:
>
>>I don't know about this, but all the install stuff says not to make the swap
>>file bigger than 128 MB. Why is this?
>
>Historical anachronisms.
>
>I'm running YD just fine with 300+ megs of ram and 128megs of swap.
>Basically, swap only gets used if you run out of RAM, so there's no
>longer any need to grow it past the default size.
With MKLinux you could not have swap partitions bigger than 128 (or
was it 127) MB, though you could have a cap.
That is old, though, and that limit no longer is in effect.
I like having swap space available even though I rarely swap- I keep
a ratio of 1.5 to 1 (swap to real) so that if need be- all my ram
could be swapped.
I rarely touch swap, but disk space is cheap, so it nice to have the
assurance that if I need it- i gots it. If I need more swap that my
ratio, I seriously need more real cause my performance is gonna be
pokey... with my very liberal ratio. I frequently go weeks without
ever swapping. (Usually when I swap its cause I turned the ram on MOL
way up to run some photoshop thing...)
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