I agree. Too much swap can actually slow down your computer. I advise equal to or less than your physical RAM. Many people advise twice your RAM, but with today's W7 computers coming with 4 - 8 GBs as standard the old recommendations need to be downgraded. As Jeremiah says you can adjust it later.
Roy Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit Location: Canada On 23 February 2011 06:52, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> wrote: > I totally disagree on the 5GB of swap. That is way too much. Zach, try this: > After you have had your computer running for half the day and have been > using it just as long, run the "free" command from a console window and > check the results. You'll see how much actual swap is being used, I promise > it won't be much at all even with several of your common programs running. > There are ways to increase your "swapiness", but you'll find out that is > will slow your machine down a bit (HD storage rather than RAM storage), even > though you can run more programs at once. > > Jeremiah E. Bess > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 01:48, Zachary Harper <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Monti.I'm no guru, but based on my experience you want the actual >> install partition to be roughly 18 Gb and then use up what ever is left as >> your home partition for files and such. If your on a laptop. then you may >> want ot make a swap partition with about 5 Gb. Again, I am by no means a >> linux guru, but this has been the advice given to me and has worked >> beautifully for me personally. >> Good luck with SuSE, and hope this helped. >> >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:37 PM, AliLasVegas <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, I want to install SuSE 11.3 to dual boot with WIN7. How much >>> space would I designate for Linux if I want to only use 50GB of Hard >>> Drive space? How would I go about sizing and partitioning the hard >>> drive...I have a 640GB HDD with Windoze on it and a 2TB drive almost >>> naked... >>> >>> Kindest Regards, >>> >>> Monti >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >>> Group. >>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit our group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> >> >> -- >> check out my site for updates about random things and the ability to shout >> at me. >> https://sites.google.com/site/kalem333 >> I work on it everyday, so I swear it will get better everytime you visit. >> Unless I contract some horrible sickness or get attacked by a bear. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
