How much swap?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:42:09AM -0400, ted leslie wrote:
> i have lately set up some systems with 10-12-16 GB of ram and even
> embarking on larger.
> SUSE 10  seems to put the swap at 2GB (i guess as a max) once you are up
> to these type of RAM numbers (this is in its standard install
> configuration recommendation).
> So I am thinking that there is generally never a need to go more the 2GB
> of HD swap? (at least in Novell's opinion)
> Now with ram being so darn cheap, how about a 16 GB system,
> but put 2GB of that into a RAM based FS and mount that as your SWAP :)
> kinda defeats the purpose, but at least Linux will have its swap
> space :)

Swapping to ram would be completely pointless and rather stupid.
Mouting tmp in ram using tmpfs makes perfectly good sense though.  Why
copy stuff from one part of ram to another through multiple layers of
block emulation for no useful purpose?

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