RE: [K12OSN] swap size

Anthon Walters (anthon@ws.co.za)
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:17:44 +0200

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> I'd love to know where that rule of thumb came from. It's been
> around for 20 years or more. In my opinion, it's completely wrong.

It comes from interpretation of swap space for Windoze servers. Basically NT
or 2k suggest swap space to the same size as your available RAM in order to
be able to do disk dumps in case of system crashes.

Regards
Anthon Walters



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