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How Much Virtual Memory is Enough?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-large-is-your-swap-partition dept.

whitroth asks: "Ten years ago, Received Wisdom said that virtual memory should be, on the average, two to two-and-a-half times real memory. In these days, where 2G RAM is not unusual, and many times is not that uncommon, is this unreasonable? What's the sense of the community as to what is a reasonable size for swap these days?"

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  1. lots by emphatic · · Score: 5, Funny

    lots

  2. More is better! by Millenniumman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use 4x750 GB hard drives (RAID), purely for virtual memory. It increases the speed on the RAM preprocessing directive, but demodulates the core processing utility monitor. I find it to be a good setup, especially for running Naibed Linux.

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  3. Listen to Mr Cray. by haeger · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."
                      -- Seymour Cray, on virtual memory.

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