[ale] Kernel 2.6 : worst-case scenarios if swap full

[yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On a db server with 16G ram and 1G swap

That seems (IMHO) to be a small amount of swap.  Granted this is an
old-school opinion, but I've always set swap to real-mem * 2.  Now I
don't think that you will need 38G of swap :-) but it I would go with
at least 2G, if not 4G.  Jim Kinney may be correct that nothing over
2G will be utilized, but you can quickly find that out with "swapon
-s".

-Jim P.