Re: [cobalt-developers] low on memory question

["William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought it a bit strange myself.  The new 2.4 kernels recommend a 
minimum of 510mb of swap, & I have also heard of the twice as much swap 
as physical. So far I have been using that rule of thumb on most of our 
machines, but have left the RaQ's alone.

Maybe someone from Sun/Cobalt will shed some light on this.

I do not remember reading a reason why in their documentation, other 
than how much.


Herb Rubin wrote:

> I just got a "low on memory" email from my Raq 4. (95% use).
>
> I looked at my swap space with "swapon -s" and noticed something odd.
>
> I have 500 megs of memory and only 133 megs of swap space. Why would
> Cobalt ship
> such a non-standard setup? I always thought the rule was twice the swap
> space as memory.
>
> What should I do?
>
> Herb
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William L. Thomson Jr.
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