Thread: Swap partition size limit and recommendations
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gnexus is offline gnexus
2007-12-30 , 17:57
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#6
Thanks for the post. You are quite correct.

I just used the old rule since it was easy to post. I used 1GB as a starter because I'm lazy and the partition was already there. I've since reduced it down since it had no benefit and I needed the extra space.

But if you add too much (say, 4-5-6 times RAM size) you may experience that things actually slow down after a while, because lots of application data/code may have been pushed out to swap over the weeks (if you leave applications up and running).
That doesn't seem to happen with the N800 for some reason. It's actually quite difficult to get it to use the swap. Maybe thats a kernel config issue. I haven't had it up with swap for weeks yet, however. . .