ok, here's something I've been wondering about for a while. I have a system that started out with 64M ram and a 128M swap partition. Since then I've upgraded to 192M ram. Not long after the mem upgrade, someone did a wierd query to the MySQL database and the system went totally wacko with a lot of kswapd messages. I actually had to hit the power switch to fix it (!). Since then its been running fine, but am I asking for problems with running a system with a swap thats much smaller than the memory? -John Clay Fandre wrote: > I think it all depends on how much RAM you have. If you have anywhere > between 0 (heh) and 512 Meg then 2*RAM is a nice number. If you have > anything above that then 2*RAM is overkill. Probably don't really want > to go over 600-700 Megs. > > But if you have a system that is constantly swapping, I think it's time > to add more memory. Don't use swap like you would memory because it's > ssssllllllooooooowwwwww. Plus memory's so dang cheap now anyways. > > Timothy Wilson wrote: > > > > Hey everyone, > > > > What's the rule of thumb these days on swap partition size on a machine with > > a lot of RAM? Specifically, how much swap on a server with 640 MB? > >