I noticed when i had 128megs of ram Mandrake 7.0 Set default SWAP file to
128, and when i installed MD7.1 with 256ram it made Default 256. That was
mine indiction....besides reading it places.
markOpoleO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin L. Denyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Long wait times when starting applications
>
>
> > I read MANY places, including the manual with Mandrake that you should
set
> > SWAP file to the ammount of ram on your system. SInce you got 128 ram
> you
> > should have it set to 128. Not sure if that is the problem. But apps
> load
> > fine for me and i got 256 ram with swap set to 256
>
> Interesting. I had heard that the swap should be twice the physical RAM.
>
> I've just RTFM for Mandrake (6.5) and it says on page 23:
>
> "In Linux, partitions of type SWAP cannot be bigger than 128Mb. If you
wish
> to use more swap, you should create several. Too much space allocated to
> swap will always be useless. In general, it is considered that for a RAM
> memory of less then 64Mb, you should have 128Mb of swap. For RAM memory
> greater than 64Mb, 80Mb of swap is sufficient."
>
> Personally, I have always gone for twice the RAM.
>
> Regards,
> Ozz.
>
>
>
