Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 07:29:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 07:29:09 -0500 Received: from vger.timpanogas.org ([207.109.151.240]:9478 "EHLO vger.timpanogas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 07:28:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 07:28:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Mike A. Harris" X-X-Sender: To: Linux Kernel mailing list Subject: Is swap == 2 * RAM a permanent thing? Message-ID: X-Unexpected-Header: The Spanish Inquisition X-Spam-To: uce@ftc.gov Copyright: Copyright 2001 by Mike A. Harris - All rights reserved MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Is the fact that we're supposed to use double the RAM size as swap a permanent thing or a temporary annoyance that will get tweaked/fixed in the future at some point during 2.4.x perhaps? What are the technical reasons behind this change? Just curious as I see a lot of people are complaining about having to repartition (although a slower swap file could be used also). I'm curious because I currently have 96Mb of RAM and 256Mb of swap, but swap rarely if ever gets used, and performance is very good. This is with 2.2.18 I'm speaking. I'm planning on upping my RAM to 256Mb or more in the near future however, and going to 2.4.3 or 2.4.4 when released, and since 96Mb does the job for me already it would suck to have to increase swap at the same time when it never gets used as it is right now. Would it be better to make part of RAM a ramdisk and swap to that? Sounds like we're going backwards IMHO, but I don't understand the details, so I'll let someone that does explain them to me. Thanks in advance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris - Linux advocate - Free Software advocate This message is copyright 2001, all rights reserved. Views expressed are my own, not necessarily shared by my employer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If it weren't for C, we'd all be programming in BASI and OBOL. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/