RE: *nix partitioning practices

"Higham, Josh" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > Figuring 500GB of unformatted storage (~465GB formatted), I am
thinking
> > along these lines:
> >
> > 8GB  - SWAP  (4GB RAM)
> 
> Space is cheap, so wasting a little on swap probably isn't a big deal,
but
> are you going to be getting anything done if the server gets 4-8GB
into
> swap?  I'd probably give swap a little less room.

I haven't done much with servers for awhile.  But I had always heard
that it is better/best to have SWAP at least equal the amount of
physical memory for obscure paging reasons.  Could be an urban legend
though...

Thanks,
Josh
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