1 Sep
2011
1 Sep
'11
8:26 a.m.
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, ken wrote:
In the absence of actual evidence to the contrary, I'd go with the recommendations in the docs regarding swap.
Personally, I think that advice needs updating for machines with large amounts of memory to include an upper bound. In general use I'm not sure I can see going above 8Gbytes of swap, and certainly with 96Gbytes of RAM, I'm not about to allocate a considerable chunck of disk to either doing nothing for the lifetime of the machine, or more likely every now and then created a long grinding death due to runaway memory consumption where it would have simply gone swiftly pop otherwise.
jh