Re: Debian's recommendation for the size of the swap.
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:34:16PM +0300, shaul wrote:
> (1) Linux accept up to 128MB for a single swap partition (2) There is (was) a
> rule of thumb to have a swap size as twice as the RAM the machine has (3)
> Having more RAM reduces the needs for swap.
ya konw, i'm a little confused. people say more RAM reduce the needs for swap
while swap is recommended for double size of RAM ? yeah, newbia i am :-P
> Does all this make sense ?
> Perhaps Debian should make a small survey among its users about the size of
> the swap size they are using ?
i'm currently use 12M swap with 64M RAM, is it too few ?
i feel ugly when open *guash*, and xemacs and netscape opened very slowly. i
only have 2G hd, and 750M among it is spared for win98 'cause i need its
support for chinese stuff.
--zhaoway
>>>>>>>>>the exactly 90000th registerd linux user in counter.li.org<<<<<<<<<
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