[ILUG-BOM] Swap full

[Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe]

Kishor wrote:

>Incidentally, what is the origin of this rule that i keep hearing -
>swap space = 2 * RAM

It's something that is heavily discussed on the kernel mailing list. Some 
time after the 2.4 release, Linux had announced that the swap requirements 
will stay that way until 2.5 The reason has something to do with the way 
disk caches are handled, which will be reworked in the 2.5 kernel

SameerDS.


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