[CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

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