RE: [tlug] A Swap Question

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> From: tlug-bounces@example.com [mailto:tlug-bounces@example.com 
> Behalf Of Joe
> Larabell
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:38 AM
> To: Tokyo Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [tlug] A Swap Question
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> 
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> 
> > For new installs on new hardware (with 1GB or more RAM), i usually
> > allocate 1/2 GB swap. My rationale is that on a server if 
> the swap is
>
<snip>
>
> That may not always be true. The comments equating swap usage to bad 
> performance assume all the swap is being eaten up by one overzealous 
> process. In that case, you're likely going to feel the pain. 
> But it really 
> does depend on exactly what you plan to do with the machine.
> 

So, it is more a matter of how the programs utilize swap,
than a matter of how much swap there is?

Is that accurate?

-- 
Ken