What's your swap size/usage

[MikeTbob]

I am curious to know the size of your swap partition and how much actually gets used. I know all the tutorials and howtos want you to double your swap according to your RAM, but I have not yet used more than 170MB of a 300MB swap.
In the middle of compiling mplayer within X, and launching every RAM eating program I can think of, all I can get is:

free
------------total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        253244     234156      19088          0       2424      76244
-/+ buffers/cache:     155488      97756
Swap:       305192     171832     133360

[antidrugue]

It depends, on my laptop I like the SWAP size equivalent to the RAM, so 1024M, because I like to use the hibernate, which dumps the content of the RAM into SWAP before powering off.

Otherwise, for machines of 512M of RAM and more not needing hibernate, I use the minimal SWAP possible, so something like 256M.

[devils casper]

i have 512 MB RAM and i allocated 512 MB SWAP space.
my machine never used more than 120MB swap space.

[SuSEholic]

My lappie:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1546596    1511388      35208          0      20888     486672
-/+ buffers/cache:    1003828     542768
Swap:       262136       1288     260848

My deskie:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2067880    2010612      57268          0      65080    1620216
-/+ buffers/cache:     325316    1742564
Swap:      2097144        132    2097012

The pc (deskie) is used by my sister right now, she's just chatting, but usually the swap get's used about > 1.5Gb, when this pc used as a development machine.

[bigtomrodney]

I use a desktop that I built myself. It has 1GB of RAM and 1GB of swap. The most swap I have ever used was about 100MB though I can't remember what it was. Generally it won't be more than about 300k used.

[bigtomrodney]

but usually the swap get's used about > 1.5Gb, when this pc used as a development machine.

What are you doing that needs 1.5GB of swap

[SuSEholic]

What are you doing that needs 1.5GB of swap

Eclipse, JBoss AS, PostgreSQL, Vim.

Well, may be it's because that machine is get used by more than 1 people at a time (through ssh).

[MikeTbob]

What are you doing that needs 1.5GB of swap

That was my point exactly. antidrugue had a good point though, Hibernate is something I never considered. That would be several hundred MB right there.

[valemon]

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1036012 956620 79392 0 76480 614228
-/+ buffers/cache: 265912 770100
Swap: 1052248 0 1052248

I have 1gig ram and I have never seen swap with even 1mb

[SuSEholic]

I have 1gig ram and I have never seen swap with even 1mb

That's means your memory usage isn't exceed your physical ram.