The basic idea of the swap partition being double the size of ram is that when your system has a crash it is still capable of writing a core dump to the harddisk. I think not many people really require that for a home system or a system that is not critical.I know some people who run happily without a swap at all. As long as you don't expect that your programs will use more memory thant they used to before you upgraded your memory and you don't run a critical system just leave the swap at what it is. If you still want to change your swap partition, you can make a new swap partition with eg fdisk and change the entry for swap in /etc/fstab.
James Niland --- Heimo Claasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I'm increasing the RAM installed to the threefold > of what there is > now, I wonder if I have to change/resize the swap > partition. > > (At present the swap is a small bit larger, 364 MB, > than memory installed. > I sometimes read advice that the swap partitions > should be _twice_ the > installed RAM; but I wonder why: wouldn't this be in > function of how > many processes, and especially X-windows, are in use > a a same time ? > As the single main memory hog to run on this machine > is just one, 1, > application in one, again: 1, window, it dowsn't > seem evident to waste > over 2 GB of HD space ?) > > If resizing is adviseable: What's the best procdure > ? > > As it is, with this (Mdk-)install, there is quite a > large, almost > empty partition devised as /home directory which > would be the evident > candidate to get cut and parted, and I would prefer > to not touch at all > on the other existing ones. So I'd like best to > define an all new > "swap" and likewise new "/home" from that (emptied) > /home space, and > to redefine the old swap space of the HD as just > some other data (or for > the "users" /homes) storage. > > // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // > Brussels 2002-12-07 > The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> > http://www.revobild.net > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
