[PLUG] Swap Partition Size and Resizing

[Terry Griffin]

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 07:41 pm, Kyle Accardi wrote:
> Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>>>"Kyle" == Kyle Accardi <sandbox at pacifier.com> writes:
> >
> > Russell> I don't think the 2x memory thing is true any more.  Some of
> > Russell> the early 2.4.x kernels had that problem (I think it was),
> > Russell> but the more recent ones I think don't.
> >
> > Kyle> I concur, but thought it was because most systems have more than
> > Kyle> enough ram nowdays.
> >
> > My understanding was that it was a deficiency/characteristic of the VM
> > code.
>
> That may well be.  The 2xRAM has been rule of thumb since the birth of
> Linux.  Don't know if it was because of VM back then or something else.
> Looks like the VM wars have been settled, like you said in early 2.4 (~one
> year ago.)
>
> Funny thing happened when I upgraded a laptop w/256MbRAM from RH7.0 to 7.3.
>   The installer _really_ wanted to created a swap file--I already had a
> swap partition.  I had to let it, but have never heard of that.  If I had
> the machine handy, I could check, but believe it created a mondo file ala
> windows.  What's up with that?

It was 1xRAM (16M minumum) prior to 2.4.0 (2.3.something actually).Then it
went up to 2x. With the new VM in 2.4.10 it went back to 1x. With disks as big
as they are these days however, there's no harm in erroring on the generous
side.

Terry