> I've got 128MB of RAM and the Swap is only 96MB. When I was running
> Caldera Open Linux 2.2, I never saw any of it being used. When I installed
> Mandrake 7.1, swap utilization came up to 2-3%. I suppose if were doing
> some heavy development work and creating huge programs, I would see it go up.
> For me personally, I don't see the need to use up more disk space for an
> area that is seeing little usage.
Running large programs is probably more likely to place demands on swap
than developing them. If you've got, say Word Perfect/Wine, a
spreadsheet program, email tool, and Netscape open (I often have
this situation) you'll probably see more swap usage :-) But I think
that's the point. The notion that swap "should be" 128m or "twice your
RAM" is pure folly. Swap demands, as you well know, is dependent upon
memory usage.
Cheers --- Larry
