[H-GEN] What size swap space is optimum?

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Further to my question on determining whether swap space is active, here's
something else that's been bugging me.

Ten months ago when I was a Linux newbie ;-) I read all of the expert tomes I
could find during installation. The advice given regarding an optimum size
for swap space was rather conflicting. The most well-argued I came across said
that it should not exceed twice the size of system RAM, otherwise the SS
manager would spend more time looking after it than getting things done, and
that a swap partition equal to RAM could be optimum. Seemed reasonable, and
since it was the only suggestion that put an UPPER limit on the partition size,
I first experimented with 2 x RAM and at present use 1 x RAM. I now think that
this may be too small.

Any words of wisdom from the Assembled Gurus out there in CyberSpace?

Carl Adams.

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