On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> Hi John ..
>
> (Re: what am I planning to do with the system)
> (Re: .. Swap file size)
>
> Well, Most likly I'll use it to .. learn linux, fool around with KDE
> and other window managers, edit web pages and graphics, play games,
> Play cd-music, surf the net .. etc.
>
> Hmmm .. well, guess that about sums it up.
>
I'd say somewhere around 128 megs of swap should be
sufficient for the above. If you're not planning on doing a
lot of programming, etc, you might be able to drop it a
bit, but IMNSHO, it's better to have TOO much swap than not
enough....same goes for ram! :-) You can always have ram
sitting there unused (well Linux will ALWAYS use almost all
the available RAM for buffering, etc, but other than that,
it's "unused" ram <G>)
My feeling is that you can have more ram than you need and
there's no harm done, but if you don't have enough RAM,
it's a real pain!!!
John
