21 Jul
2001
21 Jul
'01
10:47 a.m.
Kishor wrote:
Incidentally, what is the origin of this rule that i keep hearing - swap space = 2 * RAM
It's something that is heavily discussed on the kernel mailing list. Some time after the 2.4 release, Linux had announced that the swap requirements will stay that way until 2.5 The reason has something to do with the way disk caches are handled, which will be reworked in the 2.5 kernel
SameerDS.
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