On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:49:34PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be relative to the size of the drive? Your RAM size matters, not the HDD. First of all, you don't want to swap _at all_: buy yourself more RAM, it's cheap nowadays. Swapping slows your system down, makes it more fragile (media errors), and compromises security a bit. Having said that, it depends on your usage habits. It should be at least slightly more than your RAM size (swsusp), and you probably will hardly use a swap more than three times your RAM size. > another quickie.. does each hard drive need it's own swap partition? No, but splitting the load across several disks/controllers might improve the performance. HTH -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9
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