[CS-FSLUG] Trivial questions

[john-thomas richards]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:22:18PM -0400, Eduardo Sanchez wrote:
> Hi listpeople,
> 
> This is just to ask some questions, apologizing in advance for my 
> laziness in finding the answer.
> 
> My Slack system uses the kernel 2.4.26. My questions are:
> 
> 1. What is the RAM size/swapfile size ratio? I.e., how much swapfile 
> should I have?
> 
> 2. If I have a RAM of size X with a swapfile of size Y, and I suddenly 
> upgrade the RAM to 2X, should I increase the swapfile size? how much? 
> how can I do it if it is necessary?

the general rule of thumb is to have a swap file at least twice the size
of physical ram.

adding a swap partition is trivial.  one simply needs to have an
available partition and run 'mkswap' with the appropriate options.
-- 
john-thomas
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