On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Gary Stiehr wrote:

>         I will be installing RedHat Linux 6.2 on a server with 1GB of
> RAM.  I have doubts about creating 1GB worth of swap partitions.  The
> swap is only used when RAM is full and there is a request to load
> something else into RAM, right?  I would appreciate any
> advice/info/links.

Even with all that RAM, Linux may use some swap space for memory
management. I'd recommend 128-256 MB, but I doubt you'll ever use more
than a few megs of it (you can keep an eye on it with procinfo, top, or
free).

-- 
Todd A. Jacobs
Senior Network Consultant




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