[luau] do 2gb ram need swap space?

[MonMotha]

Under the older VMs you were supposed to always have SOME swap, though 
I'm not sure if this is needed anymore under the newer 2.4 VMs (unless 
of course RH is still using the old POS 2.4.9 kernel with Rik's old VM).

The double your RAM figure is totally off base though.  I'd probably put 
in maybe 128 or 256MB of swap just to have some (the kernel will page 
out stuff that has been idle for a really long time in order to free up 
more RAM for a disk cache, which can improve performance), but 2x 2GB 
RAM is totally wrong.  The RH guys need to be shot (once again) for 
putting such a blind reccomendation in their setup prog.

--MonMotha

R. Scott Belford wrote:
> I am building a dual athlon, scsi raid-based server with 2gb ram.  Does 
> anyone know if Redhat (7.3) still wants twice my ram in swap space?  
> This seems like a waste for 2gb in ram.  Is it, or will the kernel 
> efficiently utilize 4gb of disk swap space?
>  
> scott