On Sat, 13 May 2000, bascule wrote:
>the voodoo banshee is i believe a 2d/3d card based on the voodoo2
>chipset so it's one or two generations old, i hate to ask this question
>because i think it's one of those linux questions that brings out
>religion in some people but; what would be a good amount of swap space?
>i've read a few articles on this and there doesn't seem to be a concrete
>consensus, i'm going to recommend to my friend that he repartition to
>have 64mb -twice physical ram- at least if it were windows that's what i
>would do.
>From what I heard, your swap space should be equal to the amount of RAM in
the computer. A bit more does not hurt.
I have 128 megs of Ram and inside a clean X with KDE and only a few
programs, it gets me this:
[paul@internet paul]$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127844 99548 28296 63876 5464 33296
-/+ buffers/cache: 60788 67056
Swap: 192772 0 192772
Good luck!
Paul
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