Re: Debian installation
On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 12:05:17PM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote:
> 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?
I have 1.5 GB of RAM on my desktop, and I don't really remember when I
last needed swap. I have a 2GB swap partition just in case.
The nice thing about this amount of RAM is that you can use ramfs to
work with cd images. I never have buffer underruns this way.
Frank
>
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