Re: Swap space

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:26:30 -0800 (PST) Charles Baker <rascharles@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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?

The traditional method (before swap could be larger than 128MB), was 
to make lots of 128MB swap partitions.  In your case, 3.

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