On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
| On Wednesday 19 January 2005 03:16 pm, J. David Boyd wrote:
| > My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using
| > 256M memory.
| >
| > When I set up the system, I went with the "double your memory for swap
| > space" rule.
| >
| > Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M.
| >
| > How do I double the memory size for swap space?
| >
| > Is there some easy way, or am I going to need to get some kind of
| > partition editor, and start moving things around?
| >
| > Any idea of the consequences of NOT resizing my swap space, but leaving
| > it at 500M?
| >
| > Thanks for any ideas,
| >
| > Dave
|
| I have 768 on this machine and have never seen it access swap. It probably
| does when I'm not looking but when I have a bunch of stuff up and running
| and check it does not have any swap being used. So long story short, don't
| bother, you don't need the extra.

Same here.  I never make a swap any bigger than 256M, and I'm pretty darn sure 
that I really don't need more than 128M on any machine with more ram than 
256M.  Trust me, you have more swap space than you need already.

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