Re: [cobalt-developers] low on memory question

[Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxx>]

"William L. Thomson Jr." wrote:

> > 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.

That rule of thumb is largely a holdover from teh days when memory cost
10's or hundreds of dollars per megabyte.  Systems all had low-memory and
swapped a lot more.  Now that memory is ~ 20-40 cents per meg, it is far
more economical to just add memory.

That said, if youw ant to add more swap space:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/swapfile bs=1048576 count=256
mkswap /path/to/swapfile
swapon /path/to/swapfile   (also add to /etc/fstab)



-- 
Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
thockin@xxxxxxx