Re: How big should swap be?
It's also better to have a single large swap partition than several small ones. Depending on what kind of processor you have, you might want to consider getting more ram. I have a p166mmx running Red Hat 6.1 with kde. I use it mostly for StarOffice and Netscape. When I had only 32 mb ram, the machine was quite sluggish. Like when I would switch between in the four desktops in kde, the new desktop would get slowly painted down the screen. xosview showed a lot of swap being used. After upgrading to 64 mb ram, the machine is much faster. It hardly uses any swap, and switching between desktops shows the new desktop instantly. Good luck, Hidong Neil Wilson wrote: > > >From my experience a swap file should be about 1/3 bigger than the amount of > RAM in your system. For 32MB RAM I would set the swap to be 45MB. > > Just a suggestion from a fairly new user =)(If I am wrong I am sure hope> someone else will pipe in) > > -Original Message- > From: Adrian Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 1:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How big should swap be? > > how big should your swap partition be? i have 32 mg of ram. what should my > current swap size be? is is better to have two swap partitions or should i > have one large one? what are the advantages and disadvantages? > > -- > 12:57pm up 3 days, 11:40, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: How big should swap be?
> From: Adrian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > how big should your swap partition be? i have 32 mg of ram. what should my > current swap size be? is is better to have two swap partitions or should i > have one large one? what are the advantages and disadvantages? Depends on what you're doing. Netscape, emacs, gimp are all applications that can take up lots of memory. Best to err on the high side, especially if you have enough disk space. I would want at least 128MB minimum of memory+swap these days and would prefer more. The 2.0 kernels had a limitation of 128MB per swap partition, but I'm pretty certain that went away in the 2.2 kernels. Sounds like you're a beginner so I'd make a 128MB swap partition and that should do for a while. If you have the disk space, make two 128MB swap partitions. Dave -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
RE: How big should swap be?
>From my experience a swap file should be about 1/3 bigger than the amount of RAM in your system. For 32MB RAM I would set the swap to be 45MB. Just a suggestion from a fairly new user =)(If I am wrong I am sure someone else will pipe in) -Original Message- From: Adrian Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How big should swap be? how big should your swap partition be? i have 32 mg of ram. what should my current swap size be? is is better to have two swap partitions or should i have one large one? what are the advantages and disadvantages? -- 12:57pm up 3 days, 11:40, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
How big should swap be?
how big should your swap partition be? i have 32 mg of ram. what should my current swap size be? is is better to have two swap partitions or should i have one large one? what are the advantages and disadvantages? -- 12:57pm up 3 days, 11:40, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
