What size for the swap with a kernel 2.4x and 8GB RAM 660

Black Sun and said:

This depends on the number of RAM-hungry programs you're running. You could probably get by with as little as 1G of swap here. It's useful to have *some* swap, naturally, but with 8G of RAM, you're not going to be hitting that swap much unless you've got something like Orrible or hundreds of Java programs running.

No.

I've seen that suggested for people who do suspend-to-disk using swsusp2. This is necessary for that because swsusp2 uses the swap parbreastion to record the contents of RAM. For my desktop, I have 384M of swap and 1G RAM. About 512K of swap is being used right now, and I don't think I've ever used more than about 1-4 of that swap.

Now that RAM sizes are much larger than they used to be, swap size is less important. It all depends on what exactly you're doing, though. If you're starting huge databases or giant math modeling simulations that malloc() several Gs at a time, you'll need more swap than if you're running "ordinary desktop apps". HTH,

-- Matt GThere is no Darkness in Eternity-But only Light too dim for us to see Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin mail: TRAP + SPAN don't belong ----------------------------- penguins, is Tux." --MegaHAL