On Saturday 08 February 2003 09:24 am, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your > physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partition itself, that > is the size of the swap partition it makes. Shouldn't it be 512? > > I seem to remember (from previous tries in the past) that there was an > issue of Linux not reading all the ram. There was a file that the person > was directed to and told to edit it to what his ram was. Does anyone out > there know what I am talking about? > > Thanks > Russ
Not really off subject Russ but: Just out of curiosity I allowed the automatic/default install of Mandrake 9.1beta2 to partition, format, and otherwise manipulate, a new hard drive since I was having so much fun installing it. I clicked "Use the whole disk" or whatever the terminology is for automatic. I did this under the theory that if I didn't screw with/up any settings or configurations it may be that I'd learn what was broken. Since I had a new 40 GB Maxtor sitting here I swapped out one of the 60 GB hard drives and went nuts. /usr ended by being (in my opinion) too small, /var way too large, no separate /boot, and the swap size was set at 403 MB. This box runs 768 MB of RAM; previously a full 1024 but the motherboard is old and it's lost it's ability to communicate with one of the 4 slots. "Back in the day" it was a good rule of thumb to have swap=double (or 2.5x) the available physical memory, but I remember reading somewhere that this is no longer necessary. If you have the space to spare (I do) go for it if it makes you feel better, but when I reinstalled to "full cooker" I repartitioned to have a separate /boot and kept the swap size at approximately 400 MB. No trouble so far. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org We're here to give you a computer, not a religion. - attributed to Bob Pariseau, at the introduction of the Amiga
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