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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?"

3 of 544 comments (clear)

  1. Re:lots by Xocet_00 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Haha. Redundant.

    I'm not really sure it's possible for the first thing said in a discussion to be "redundant".

    Weee! Now I'm going to get an "offtopic". Sweet.

  2. Re:lots by Xocet_00 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He gets offtopic too? Not all slashdot discussions confine themselves to only the immediate topic discussed in the article. I'd say by the third post, we've got a legitimate discussion going. Pfft.

  3. Virtual what ? by kabz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How much WHAT ?!?!?!?

    (I use a Mac you insensitive clod!!)

    Ohhhhh, /etc/fstab ...

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