Re: [newbie] /swap file - 128 or 256

[Steve Philp]

Benjamin wrote:
> 
> Dear friends:
> 
> Last question:
> 
> I have an AMD K6-2 400 Mhrtz with 128 megs of real RAM. Should I go for
> a 128 swap file or a 256 swap file? Any special advantage to having a
> 256 swap file?

It will depend on the kinds of jobs that you'll be running on the
machine.  If you estimate that you'll go over 256M of virtual memory, go
for the extra swap space.  Hard drive space is cheap.

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Steve Philp
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Advance Packaging Corporation
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