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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?"

2 of 544 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Pre-emptive swapping... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please don't waste everyone else's time with your pointless post about how some other post was moderated. If you have the mod points, then moderate. If you don't, then kindly keep your trap shut.

  2. Re:Not much, anymore... by Mattwolf7 · · Score: 1, Troll

    And you can do this in Windows?

    No you can't, but if you could it would be a registry hack

    Nice Troll...