Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 39248
swap requirements too mechanical
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:05 EDT
Description of Problem: I happen to have on a test machine 449 MB of a swap space scattered over different disks. Still anaconda wants an extra 31 MB of a swap file because I happend to have 256 MB of memory installed. Common guys! There have to be some reasonable limit when even this broken Python does not swap anymore. Yes, I am aware of problems with swap in current 2.4 kernels but if you look closer at what was said on linux-kernel list than this is not exactly a "twice memory" mechanical requirement. You may need that when you start really swapping but below that a behaviour is not really different from 2.2 kernels. Note that I was able to install at least something (see #39244) when I _reduced_ an amount of a swap space as opposed to working with a full complement. Michal michal@harddata.com
The "reasonable limit" is 1 Gig of ram. Above that, we don't require 2x ram for the swap. Maybe that's too high, maybe it's too low...but that's where we made it. It's hard to come up with a level that would please everybody.