On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 12:40 +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > Wang Penghui ha scritto: > > Hello: > > > > I want to install gentoo on a pc box as daily use and test bed. And the > > follow is its hardwares: > > > > CPU: Intel C4 1.7G > > Mem: 1G > > HardDisk: 40G > > > > I wandor know how big the swap partition should be? > > > > And how to design the other partitions? > > > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > Wang > > Some time in the past all was saying to you that the swap space must be > at least double the ram, i.e. 2G in your case. > Nowadays with so much ram probably you can safely limit that to 1GB. > > Many times with kernel 2.6 and a lot of ram I simply disable swap in the > kernel config. But every time I point this out all the world flame me so > probably is not the best thing to do. Simply it work for me. >
only exception would be if you're thinking of softwre suspend/suspend to disk. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:11:49 up 8:49, 6 users, load average: 1.06, 0.89, 0.67 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
