Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Wednesday 04 April 2007 15:35, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > >> dwain wrote: >> >>> I am planning on adding a third hard drive to my mix. I will be >>> buying 2 new larger ones, one for root and one for home and i would >>> like to use the third one as a swap drive. >>> >> Swap is typically 2x your RAM. >> > > This is not a meaningful rule of thumb--it has nothing to do with > anything real. If anything, having more physical RAM means you need > less swap space to accommodate any given process mix. > I think you may be forgetting if he uses suspend to disk, it needs to fit the memory in his swap partition. Not necessarily 2x, but more than 1x.
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