Hello Lisi, Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 May 2012 12:12:31 Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > As a rule, your swap > > partition should be the same size as your RAM. > > We used to be taught it should be twice as big as your RAM - but even that > wouldn't get you to 40GB!! And, of course, that was in the days when RAM was > tiny by today's standards. That indeed was a rule of thumb when swap space was actually important. However, with today’s RAM, the main usage of swap space is hibernate (suspend to disk), for which at most the size of your RAM in swap space is required. Best regards, Claudius -- Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt. http://chubig.net telnet nightfall.org 4242
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