That's lead to another question. I'm just using swap for suspend tests.
Now that I have created (add) another swap partition to have memory enough
to suspend to HD, my doubt is what should I have to put in lilo append?
To complicate a little more, none of my swap partitions has alone space
enough to cover RAM, but both together do.
Answering myself, I think that I had to put at least one swap partition
big enough and set it at lilo, right?
Cheers,
On 30 Mar 2003, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 16:37, Jim C wrote:
> > I'm a little confused here. Shouldn't adding memory to a box mean you
> > don't need as much swap?
>
> My understanding is that in a way you are right, in a way not. (Hows
> that for a definitive answer.) More ram decreases the likely hood of
> needing to use swap but the old rule of thumb 2x ram=swap still is
> applied. I will be honest in saying that above about 256M or ram the
> only thing I use swap for is suspend space based on what I do. In fact
> I did pull a real boner about 6 months ago and built a box with 768M ram
> and forgot to create a swap partition. It ran pretty well for a long
> time... we noticed it when it went into an infinite loop one day.
> (programing loop.) and it was trying to page. Put an old 2gig in it as
> a swap drive just in case but it really didn't "improve" things at all
> except when the infinite loop is run.
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Alan Wilter S. da Silva
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Laboratório de Física Biológica
Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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