Re: Swap space

[Richard Cobbe <cobbe@airmail.net>]

Lo, on Sunday, February 24, Charles Baker did write:

> I'm about to install sid, using unoffical iso's, on a
> machine w/ 384MB of RAM. Old rule of thumb was
> 2*RAM-SIZE = SWAP-SIZE . Do I really need 768MB of
> swap space?!?!?! Plus, since the install uses 2.2.20
> kernel, will it be able to handle a swap space larger
> than 128MB?

I don't remember the exact details, but the 128M limit on swap space was
relaxed quite some time ago.  2.2.20 should handle a single 768M swap
partition/file quite nicely.

You'd need to know what you're planning on using the machine for in
order to decide if 768M swapspace is really necessary.

Richard