resizing swap partition

[Chris Roddy <croddy@emory.edu>]

I've recently doubled the memory in two of my systems. Each one
previously had a swap partition configured that was, in accordance with
a "rule of thumb" whose origins I've forgotten, exactly two times the
size of the physical memory in the system.

Resizing the data partitions on these systems to make room for a larger
swap space would present only a minor inconvenience, but is it even
worth that effort? If there's no reason to prefer a 4GB swap partition
over a 2GB partition for a system with 2GB of physical memory, then I'd
just as soon leave things as they are.

Thoughts?



cmr