Re: [K12OSN] swap size

Steve Wright (paua@quicksilver.net.nz)
Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:01:06 +1200


On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:37:51AM -0700, Dan Bentson-Royal wrote:
> The documentation I have says that I should have my SWAP space be the 
> same size as my available RAM. But during the install, I wasn't sure 
> how much ram I had so I guessed at 512MB. As it turns out, I only 
> have 256 MB. Should I make changes? 

Nah, your swap space will be fine.  Consider adding RAM though, especially
if kswapd is consuming vast amounts of processor time, like mine is.. 8-O

/sw

    1 ?        S      0:04 init [5]
    2 ?        SW     0:00 [keventd]
    3 ?        SW     0:00 [kapm-idled]
    4 ?        SWN    0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
>>> 5 ?        SW     0:15 [kswapd]
    6 ?        SW     0:00 [kreclaimd]
    7 ?        SW     0:00 [bdflush]
    8 ?        SW     0:00 [kupdated]



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