Re: Debian installation
On Sat, 24 May 2003 16:37:27 +0200
Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be> wrote:
> 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.
>
How does that work? Just curious :-)
You first load cd's into ram before you burn them or something?
mvg,
Wim
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