<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Roberto Ragusa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@robertoragusa.it" target="_blank">mail@robertoragusa.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:<br>
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> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Rahul Tidke <<a href="mailto:rahul@excelize.com" target="_blank">rahul@excelize.com</a><br>
</div><div>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rahul@excelize.com" target="_blank">rahul@excelize.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
> I am configuring a server with 3 GB of RAM; how much swap partition<br>
> size should I allocate. I think allocating twice of RAM will be<br>
> waste of HDD space. What is the standard.<br>
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</div><div>> If you intend to hibernate, then you need at least the same size of the ram.<br>
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</div>And then consider that you may want to hibernate even when the<br>
machine is already using some swap.<br>
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I think that if you have 3GB of RAM you have more than 100GB of HD space.<br>
Maybe a lot more, as you say it's a server.<br>
I'd go for 5GB.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>As I said before, one can always use an extra swap area via a file.<br><br>But if a server would ever need a 5GB of swap, then it is time to buy more ram.<br>The amount of "data + programs running" should not exceed the amount of available ram,<br>
if one wants a decent performance on a server:<br><br><a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/121916">http://www.linux.com/feature/121916</a><br><br></div></div><br>-- <br>Paulo Roma Cavalcanti<br>LCG - UFRJ<br>