Max swap parbreastions on Redhat 3.0 2953
Floyd L. Davidson
My camera is plugged into the USB port on the back of my computer. It is on. I have the latest gphoto2 and libgphoto2 compiled and installed. My...
Who knows? It depends on what I am doing, though what is seldom very memory intensive. Why 1 Gb swap with 4 GB RAM? I do not believe in the twice-as-much-swap-as-RAM rule of thumb (we are no longer running UNIX kernels from the early 1970s anymore, after all), but I have so much disk space (four 19 GByte Ultra-320 SCSI 10,000rpm hard drives (where the swap parbreastions are) and two 80 GByte 7,200rpm EIDE hard drives), that it does not really matter. Why not go with no swap space at all? More than half my RAM is normally used just for cache:
$ catproc-meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 4199280640 4155920384 43360256 0 182689792 3438747648 Swap: 8389709824 176128 838953368 plus 16 MemTotal: 4100860 kB MemFree: 42344 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 178408 kB Cached: 3358020 kB SwapCached: 132 kB Active: 3158088 kB ActiveAnon: 457108 kB ActiveCache: 2700980 kB Inactdirty: 592768 kB Inactlaundry: 110780 kB Inactclean: 6768 plus 16 kB Inacttarget: 785864 kB HighTotal: 3276224 kB HighFree: 20816 kB LowTotal: 824636 kB LowFree: 21528 kB SwapTotal: 8193076 kB SwapFree: 8192904 kB CommittedAS: 1407148 kB HugePagesTotal: 0 HugePagesFree: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
That is for sure: depends on what I am doing. One of the things I do...
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Max swap parbreastions on Redhat 3.0 2954
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