Hello,
what are the remedies available when your swap space is reported as being full?
One obvious option is to create more swap. You can create swap files (mkswap(8)) as you need and add them with swapon.
this hasnt happened to me, but i'm just curious to know... Incidentally, what is the origin of this rule that i keep hearing - swap space = 2 * RAM I've heard this kind of rule being recommended when you're running SAP, but for home systems??????? especially when most home PC's are touching 256/512MB.....
I think it is because Linux started on machine with small RAM (I have run it in a 386 with 8MB). Now it does not make so much sense, right? As you say, if you have a machine with 512 MB RAM, would you put 1GB swap? Only if you expect the machine to be heavily loaded, I guess....
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