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Re: Debian installation



On Fri, 23 May 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:48:52PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > Try something like
> > 
> > swap   (size of your ram) 
> > swap 	(size of your ram)
> 
> Actually, given the advances in kernel technology, this is more of a
> minimum than a hard value.  And you only need one.  Go with *way* more
> than you think you'll ever need, nothing sucks more than not having
> enough address space.
> 
> Myself?  I go with a gig.

I'm tempted to, with my next machine, go with 1 GB - 1.5 GB of memory, 
and avoid a dedicated swap partition all together.

In the odd event that I require more then 1.5 GB of memory for a certain 
task, there is always the swap *file* option.  ('man mkswap ; man
swapon' )

Speaking of which, for those of you with over 1 GB of memory out there, 
what apps cause you to hit the swap partition?

~ Jesse Meyer

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