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From: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>
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Subject: Re: Swap space with 3GB RAM
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>>>>> "MH" == Mark Hughes <mh_lists@digitalspy.co.uk> writes:

MH> Where man tuning says that it's faster to run with 2xRAM as Swap because
MH> certain things are tuned to that size, if you are not going to be using
MH> the swap that you allocate, is it worth doubling it? As i've said, hard

I think it is a waste.  I usually set up minimal swap to handle crash
dumps.  Even with that, taking a 3GB dump ain't speedy.

I rarely hit SWAP on those machines, so having it is just a safeguard
from crashing when ram runs out.

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