Wise disk parting.
Steve Lindemann
steve at marmot.org
Wed Nov 7 17:29:37 UTC 2007
Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Wise disk parting.
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> In days gone by the rule of thumb for *nix was swap should be 1/2 the
> size of RAM. Hadn't heard about that rule changing, but then I'm not on
> the bleeding edge these days.... though on my servers with 16GB of RAM
> it felt like a bit much setting swap to 8GB (but I did it anyway 8^)
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> How does "hibernation" figure into this equation? I would assume that the contents of RAM need to stored somewhere on the disk....
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hibernation didn't figure into it... not to many *nix laptops when I
started (i.e. none). We also didn't have the huge graphic based
programs of today. My swap sizing is most likely dated and should
probably be scrapped in favor of a new rule of thumb.
I can certainly see your point, I hadn't really considered the need for
hibernation ...I don't use hibernate or other such functions on the few
laptops I do use... besides, almost all of my *nix boxes are servers.
With enough RAM you rarely touch swap (or so my experience has gone).
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