On 7/6/2011 9:17 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > I have loaded CentOS 5.6 on HP DL 180G6 2U Rack Server and the > physical RAM is 32 GB. As per > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-swapspace.html > It says it should be 1 x of Physical RAM or less. Not sure about the > "less" word in deciding swap space size > > Please suggest/guide further on what all parameters i should decide to > set swap space. > > Regards, > > Kaushal > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos frankly unless you anticipate needing to use swap i would not set more than 8 gigs..it really depends on your application.