March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
14h 38m
English
Choosing the right memory size and configuring the right swap area size can contribute to good memory performance. Only experience can determine the right values for any particular installation, but some initial guidelines are provided in the next paragraphs.
For the swap area, the old rule of thumb was to use two to three times the size of physical memory, with a minimum of one times the size of physical memory. However, this may not always be realistic. For large memory configurations, the use of pseudo-swap in addition to normal swap allows up to 75% of available memory to be used once the swap devices are full, without the need to reserve physical swap space. Pseudo-swap is ...
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