On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:34:16PM +0300, shaul wrote: > (1) Linux accept up to 128MB for a single swap partition (2) There is (was) a > rule of thumb to have a swap size as twice as the RAM the machine has (3) > Having more RAM reduces the needs for swap.
ya konw, i'm a little confused. people say more RAM reduce the needs for swap while swap is recommended for double size of RAM ? yeah, newbia i am :-P > Does all this make sense ? > Perhaps Debian should make a small survey among its users about the size of > the swap size they are using ? i'm currently use 12M swap with 64M RAM, is it too few ? i feel ugly when open *guash*, and xemacs and netscape opened very slowly. i only have 2G hd, and 750M among it is spared for win98 'cause i need its support for chinese stuff. --zhaoway >>>>>>>>>the exactly 90000th registerd linux user in counter.li.org<<<<<<<<<