[kde-solaris] swap space requirements [was: KDE 3.1.4 - Can't talk to klauncher]

[Rolf Sponsel]

Stefan,

What do you base that "rule of thumb" on?

This sounds to me, like an old SunOS myth, and
is not in accordance with, e.g. this article.

http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2377/UIR960401perf/

Best Regards / Rolf

Stefan Teleman wrote:
> The rule of thumb for determining the minimal amount of swap space is:
> 
> at least 3 times core RAM.
> 
> That means, for a workstation with 640MB core RAM you need _AT LEAST_
> 1920MB swap. which you can probably safely round up to 2048MB.
> 
> Running out of swap on 640MB core with 1GB swap is not surprising at
> all.
> 
> --Stefan
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> On Monday, January 26, 2004, Michael Szengel wrote:
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> [ ... snip ... ]
> 
> 
>>For your reference:  my Sun Blade 100 has 640 MB RAM and had 1 GB swap. I 
>>had to extend the swap by 500 MB in order to survive the days without the 
>>error message you mentioned.
> 
> 

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