RE: *nix partitioning practices
"Higham, Josh" <[email protected]>
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> > 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 -- Eat sushi frequently. - Avi [email protected] is the human contact address. [email protected] is the list posting address. See below URL for subscribe/unsubscribe and list options: http://inet-access.net/mailman/listinfo/list