Max swap parbreastions on Redhat 3.0 2954

That is for sure: depends on what I am doing. One of the things I do, but not most of the time, is a database application where, for speed reasons, I try to get the whole index into RAM. Due to the design of the dbms, I cannot really do that (it tries to protect me from myself and writes out stuff on the theory that I will need the space later, even though the buffer pool for the index is big enough to contain the entire index -- so index pages get written more often than I really need. But from a reliability -- COMMIT -- standpoint, it must do this, I suppose.). But the rest of the time, I could probably get by with 1-4 the RAM I have and next to no swap space at all.

Since my original reply, I looked up swapping in the documentation from Red Hat, and they say to not use more than 2 GBytes swap. I think they mean per parbreastion. They do not say how many parbreastions you can have, but if you do not use more than one per hard drive, how many parbreastions is anyone likely to have? If I had 100 hard drives and needed 200 GBytes swap, what I should probably do is sell a couple of hard drives and put in more ram.

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