28 Jul
2001
28 Jul
'01
11:02 p.m.
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe spewed into the ether:
Kishor wrote:
Incidentally, what is the origin of this rule that i keep hearing - swap space = 2 * RAM
The requirement is a statement of the fact: You have to be able to swap your entire RAM cache out, and fill all the RAM from disk Therfore, size of swap = sizeof(RAM) + sizeof(RAM) = 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
Thats Linus, right?
Devdas Bhagat