In article <u8hAd.28$JC2.10@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net> ,
Joseph Dionne wrote:

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

So you know about 'top' and 'free' and how to determine what is
swapped out using the 'ps' command.

>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.

OK, the assumption is you are also using the big-memory kernel too.

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

Do you really _need_ that much swap? Normally, with that much memory,
the system shouldm't be using much (if any) swap space. With our systems
that at work stations and relatively dumb servers, we tend to have lots
of stuff cached and/or buffered, and there might be ten or twenty Megs
of unused stuff swapped out, and that's it.

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

Dunno - what does 'free' show?

Old guy