High, On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I have just build a machine, and am ready to start putting the "stable" > on it. This is the first time I have built one from scratch, and it has > made me think in detail about what I am doing as I put it all together. > Now as I am newish to Linux I thought you might indulge me her. On two > other boxes I have here I have "potato" running fine, but as I think > about it there may be a better set-up. To help me get to the enlightened > approach could I pick the panel brains on the following? > > 1: I recently read that logical partitions were better than primary > because of the size limits on the directories. I didn't quit understand > this. On this laptop I have 4 primary partitions, with the 4th holding 4 > logical. Is this unwise? Should I just have one big logical partition? > dunno about this one
> 2: In my other machines I have 128 Mb memory, so I have had a 128 Mb > swap file. In my new machine I have taken advantage of the low price and > put 512 Mb in it. This set me thinking, and I cannot reconcile the > following I have been told or read; These are just rules of thumb. I think it is the following: > > a: "With 512 Mb ram you don't need a swap file" only if you are not a heavy user > b: "You must have a swap file 2x ram" true, until c: comes true > c: "Over 128 Mb ram you must have a swap file of there same size" true > d: "A swap file cannot be over 128 Mb" afaik, it can be > e: "A swap file cannot be over 256 Mb" afaik, it can be > f: "A swap file cannot be over 512 Mb" afaik, it can be > g: "Swap files must be in multiple of 128 Mb" I think it is wise that it is a multiple of your real memory. But, 1x ram and 2x ram is a multiply (so it is not necesary to have a 128MB multiply) > h: "Swap files are an irrelevance on modern machines" perhaps. BTW: Mb means Megabit, is should be MB. Hope this enlighten things a bit. Greetz, Sebastiaan > > My questions are not from a lack of research, rather I have found out > too much which is contradictory. I would like some guidance in sorting > the what from the chaff here > > Keith > > -- > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Keith O'Connell | "That which does not kill | > | Maidstone, Kent (UK) | us, usually still hurts. | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's just life, I'm afraid" | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
