[PLUG] Too much swap space?

[Wil Cooley]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 12:22 -0800, Mike Witt wrote:
> It it possible to have too much swap space? For example, I've
> got 256 Meg of Ram on a Fedora Core 2 box, and a full 1 Gig of
> swap space configured. Is there any way I could be suffering
> a performance *penalty* for having too much swap? (I've got
> plenty of disk space, so I'm not worried about "wasting" a
> little space.)

No; if you find the kernel swapping more than it should (instead of
reclaiming cache pages), there is tuning you can do via sysctl.

Wil
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Wil Cooley                                 wcooley at nakedape.cc
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