Mario Michael da Costa wrote: > I don't really know how true, what i am about to type below sounds, it > is what was told to me by a more tech savvy friend. > > The swap partition must be at least as big as the amount of physical > ram in a machine. This is because in some cases the entire contents of > the ram may be swapped back and forth between the ram and the swap > partition. I know it sounds a little farfetched, but at least this is > what i follow, coz to be honest, i don't know any better.
That seems to correlate with the recommendation I heard -- that swap less than 2x RAM was not useful for some versions of the 2.4 kernel, due to a bug or problem of some sort. I know that's not true for all kernels. Randy Kramer
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