How much disk space do you need to work?
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I assume you are about to expire from boredom if you're reading 10 day old drivel written by some amateur politician who thinks he can write software. :)
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Shelby Robertson wrote:
...i have about 500mb of free space with that swap file set at a max of 512...
You get better performance out of a swapfile when it is "large" and not fragmented. Best case is contiguous. The swapfile is not generally used much on a system, but when it is, it is always when the system is really busy, and fragmentation makes the problem(s) worse. Use of an SSD disk will alter the statistics somewhat, but split I/Os (ie. breaking up a "large" I/O into pieces) badly impact the swapping process. SSDs still work better with a contiguous swapfile.
-- Harvey
H.Brydon wrote:
You get better performance out of a swapfile when it is "large" and not fragmented. Best case is contiguous. The swapfile is not generally used much on a system, but when it is, it is always when the system is really busy, and fragmentation makes the problem(s) worse.
H.Brydon wrote:
Shelby Robertson wrote:
...i have about 500mb of free space
If you don't have enough disk space for anything larger, then larger is not better. Also in the particular system we are talking about, the swap file is hit near constantly. Said system needs to be thrown away.
CPallini wrote:
You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him. :Smile:
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We regularly run out of disk space on our lixus dev servers as the admin team don't want to put quotas in place. I had a look today and in my 'working' area containing many local checkouts of different things that had been built with all their temp files, log files from running them, the odd core file, etc and I've used 150gb. On my windows machine there's another 20gb of similar stuff. This seems like a lot, how much do others have?
I use about 105 gig on my work machine, which includes 14 g of music, plus a bunch of other unnecessary files, and a number of project I have downloaded, either from codeproject, or my own company, that are unnecessary. On my laptop, which I recently had a disk failure, I replaced a 750gb hd with a 250 and currently using only 64 gb. Now on my desktop at home, I am always close to filled because I use it for downloading and ripping, including videos. I have a 4 TB drive in my desktop which I use for all my data, and a 2 TB USB backup which I keep stuff that I really do not want to loose if the 4TB dies (happy it is not a WE since I have had more failures with WE drives). My final backup is a 500 gb, which now does not hold quite as much as I would like. I do not backup the videos. I have seen a lot of stuff on servers at work which should have been removed years ago that is still there. Stuff that may have unintentionally been placed on a server and now cannot be deleted.
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To work... not much, if we exclude virtual machines, around a 1GB will do it, if I stored every project I worked on in the past, maybe around 10 GB will suffice; however dealing with music and movies, space can go really quick.
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