Admittedly, I am new to Linux, however I am a decades old UNIX
administrator. I ask patience if my question seems beneath this group.

I have a production server with 12 gig of ram, running Inetd daemons for
high volume, short duration IP transactions, often times less than 4
seconds. I am using RedHat Enterprise, version 10, and it recommends a
max of 2 gig for swap space, a mere portion of available user memory.

Is this 2 gig limit real, or based on specifications of older hardware
supporting lower amounts of system memory?

For that matter, is my production too large for Linux?

Joseph