Re: Swap space not used
Hm, I've got 4 GB RAM and two swaps, 2.17GiB and 2.43GiB, one on each
HDD I'm using.
I'm doing resource-intensive work with my machine.
4 GB RAM are enough for my needs and I never noticed that a swap was
touched.
For my kind of usage Linux (Debian and several other distros) are able
to handle the RAM without fault.
The rule that a swap should be double as large as the RAM is outdated.
Anyway, some people might need much RAM.
Sometime ago I noticed that some (perhaps all, I didn't checked this)
x86_64 kernels on my machine only access 3.8GB from the 4GB RAM on my
machine (no shared memory for the framebuffer), 32-bit PAE kernels are
all ok. I searched the web and found out that other people, having much
more RAM mounted, have this issue with x86_64 kernels too.
> The computer has 8GB of RAM, and I have found that the
> tendency of web site develpoers, is increased sloppiness, as
> too many web site
> developers appear to work on the principle that computers have
> an
> infinite amount of RAM for them to squander.
I don't think so, since there are still a lot of people using 32-bit
Windows installs that can access less than 4GB. If you've got issues
with 8GB RAM when surfing the Internet, I suspect that some script set
limits for the RAM.
> When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as
> is shown by gparted.
Did you chose this large swap or was it done automatically? My
installs / + /home have around 20 or 30 GB only. Of cause, for audio
productions I have separated, large partitions.
Is your Debian a regular Debian? IOW did you download the image from the
Internet or did you use a DVD from a computer magazine?
At least German computer magazines often have broken versions of distros
as a supplement.
Regards,
Ralf
2 Cents,
Ralf
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