Just be careful setting swap to be less than RAM, if you have an
operating system that will dump physical memory to swap in case of a
panic (not that BSD or Solaris ever do that! <g>)

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 10:14, Dave Carlson wrote:
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> On Friday 19 March 2004 22:42, Samuel MacDonald wrote:
> > Is there a point where more swap doesn't help?
> 
> It's really more of an issue of determining your maximum memory load. I have 
> 1GB of RAM in the computer I use most often.  I had fedora set the amount of 
> swap (was something like 800M).  I have yet to see any processes swap out to 
> disk.  Before I ran fedora, I wasn't using any swap, and had no problems.  I 
> usually have one e-mail window open, sometimes a VMware window, and often 
> play UT2003 (and now UT2004).
> 
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> - -dave
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