[ale] more memory, bigger swap? (fwd)

[Unix Guru Dude]

To my previous request to this list for information I received the following
response via email.  I would appreciate further input upon such requests.
If I am posting inappropriate questions, I would like to hear it from, say a
few more.  If this is an accurate estimation of my requests, I will refrain
from further such posts.  In my dim witted view, lists such as these are
intended to share the wealth of knowledge that has been gained from others.
I understand there is some line drawn as to RTFM and requesting assistance.
I'm not quite sure where it lies here.

}On Mon, 27 May 1996, Unix Guru Dude wrote:
}
}> I've always heard that you're swap should be 2x your memory.  This has
}> never really made sense to me, because I would figure you would need
}> more swap with less memory, and less swap with more memory.  Well I just
}> broke down and swapped out a couple of whimpy 4 meg chips with a couple of
}> 16 meg chips.  This pushes me up to 40 meg.  I don't see any sense in
}> adding more swap, say up to 80 meg?  Someone straighten me out....
}
}    please do one of two things:
}  1)  read the fucking documentation before dropping your drivel
}	in everyone's mailbox	OR
}  2)  as least change your "Unix Guru Dude" title to something
}	more appropriate like "Linux Idiot" and it may not be so
}	irksome
}
}    to the question...  it depends on your load... i have 36M
}  and i've only pushed into swap (36M Swap part.) once by buffering
}  about 150 frames of a large quicktime
}
}    the documentation reads...
}	"If you have a great deal of physical RAM (say, sixteen
}	megabytes or more), you may not wish to use swap space
}	at all."	Installing and Running Linux
}			by Matt Welsh	Sec2.2.3
}  and from what i've witnessed, linux doesn't swap well in high
}  RAM cases -- but that's speculation.

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