Re: [tlug] A Swap Question

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Curt Sampson writes:
>
> > The original "swap should be 2x RAM" recommendation came about because
> > earlier Unix systems' memory manager would commit a page of swap for
> > every page of RAM in use. Thus, if you had swap equal to RAM, you
> > effectively had no swap space.
>
> Nice theory, but the fact of the matter is that up until 2.4 the
> recommendation on Linux was 1x RAM.

Sorry, miscommunication here. I was not talking about Linux; I was
talking about the (much earlier) origins of the "swap should be 2x RAM"
recommendations.

If Linux started out without that, power to it, but that would have been
about a decade after everybody had pretty much decided that 2x swap was
the way to go.

cjs
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