Optimal Swap Size

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thutch : 30/11/01 05:24 AM : Incident created -   During installation I went with the default swap size of 400m I have 256M of Ram on this machine. Is 400M Swap optimal? Or would a smaller Swap be optimal? thanks,
Linegod_7611 : 30/11/01 12:48 PM : Reply received -   With 256Meg of RAM, it shouldn't be a concern, but depending on which kernel you are using, either equal or double your RAM would be a good rule of thumb.
thutch : 30/11/01 11:43 PM : Incident closed -

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