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HOW BIG SHOULD THE SWAP FILE BE ??
Posted by YuppieScum For the last time (yeah, right)... The purpose of the swap file is to make the OS and any apps think that there is more memory than actually exists in the computer. This is because disk space is cheaper than RAM. If you have gargantuan amounts of RAM in your machine (eg, several of my servers have 2Gb+ RAM), then setting the swap file to zero is the thing to do. That way the OS won't swap. Remember - the less RAM an OS has, the more it will want to swap. Making a RAM disk will encourage the OS to swap, because it have less RAM. Putting the swap file on the RAM disk is like p1ssing in the wind... How much clearer can I make this? |