topic Re: swap space in Operating System - Linux

swap space

Ragni Singh — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:09:47 GMT

How much swap space to give with 16gigs of memory?

Re: swap space

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:50:27 GMT

Hi:

As a guide, see :

http://www.linux.com/feature/121916

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: swap space

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:34:36 GMT

Shalom,

Linux is much more flexible that Unix with swap space.

With this much memory, you can get away with as little as 8 GB of swap space.

The general the rule of twice ram only applies with systems that are going to be under memory pressure. If the system is really going to need 32 GB of swap space then it needs more memory.

Certain products like the Oracle database will not function with too little swap.

The OS install will complain if you go less than 50% RAM in swap.

SEP

Re: swap space

Ragu_3 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:08:13 GMT

The general rule of thumb is swap = four times real ram. Set apart atleast 32 GB as swap.