[CentOS] Swap Considerations

Tue Feb 27 12:17:08 UTC 2007
Sudev Barar <sbarar at gmail.com>

On 27/02/07, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:36:36AM +0200, Alvin Chang wrote:
> > >When I get firefox and thunderbird fired up, memory usage can go through
> > >the roof so I have allocated 2GB (maximum swap partition size btw) for
> > Pardon me, but I just set up a CentOS box with 8GB of swap partition
> > yesterday. Am I misisng something?
>
> Sure -- about 8GB of disk space which could have been better used in another
> way. :)
>

eerrrr but it would be 6GB surely? AFAIK 2GB of swap is max
addresseable by CentOS so only balance would have been better used
somewhere else ;-)

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Regards,
Sudev Barar