On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 07:51:59AM -0500, Yaron wrote:
>   Hey,
> 
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
> 
> > System has 32M of ram, 51.2M of swap isn't going to do diddly squat for you.
> ...
> > There has *NEVER* been a formula that involved RAM*(number) = SWAP. Ever.
> 
> There has been, in every SunOS/Solaris System Installation Manual for at
> least 10 years. I've also seen it in SCO manuals. I can tell you from
> experience that an AIX box WILL NOT FUNCTION CORRECTLY without SWAP >
> Physical Mem. And not a little >, a LOT >. In fact, IBM have told me to
> make swap 2*Physical Mem, but I've never been able to read an IBM manual
> so I don't know if they have a formula actually documented.
> 

Do the math, do you really think 64M of swap is enough on a 32M system?

Is 8 gigs of swap excessive on a a 4G box? obviously it is considering
there was a 128M limit at one point, and people have had >64M of ram for
quite a while.

> 
> > I've got half a gig of ram in my system, and 512M of swap. it's more than
> > enough. (unless i'm making some of my very very very large maps =)
> 
> Or you're running three or four VMWare instances. Or are doing a lot of
> video editing. Or both. While compiling stuff.
> 

and 128M of ram + 256M of swap is enough for this? I don't think so.

> 
> -Yaron

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