[CentOS] How to Increase Swap Memory in Centos 4.4?

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:26:49PM -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 04:48:05PM -0300, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote:
> >   Well, on old unix systems (Solaris, AIX), if you didn't have swap at 
> > least the double of RAM you can't use all your RAM. 
> > 
> >   But, back then 64Mb RAM was a lot of RAM.
> 
> Can't use all RAM ? Are you sure about that ?

On OLD systems, yes. You'd be limited by swap, not ram.

> I clearly remember (Linxu and AIX on this one) that if you had more than
> double, you would not use all your SWAP. RAM is always accessible ...

That always depends on the workload, but I prefer to have processes
being killed by OOM instead of having the machine thrashing about. So I
usually don't use more than 1GB.

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lfr
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