On Tue, 25 May 2004 12:05:13 +0100 (BST)
Paul Reilly <paulr at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> 2nd Q: if the machine has huge RAM, say 4GB, do you really need
> to allocate 2.5x this (10 GB) as disk swap? It seems crazy. I
> didn't do this one 2.4 box, and had all sorts of kswapd
> problems.
AFAIK, yes. The algorithms used to map the swapped pages tend to
be optimised for a certain ratio. Also, if you have a number of
disks, you should divide the swap evenly between them - assuming
each has it's own controller.
-fr.
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