[ilugd] Open Source Technology in Rural Areas

2011-04-25 Thread ankIT WALiA
Hi All, I am working with an NGO M S Swaminathan Research Foundationhttp://mssrf.orgwho works to provide Information, Education, Communication and Technology for Rural India. They also work into other scientific solutions to Agriculture, Bio-Diversity and Food Security. They provide basic

[ilugd] Question about SWAP and tempfs

2011-04-25 Thread Amit Sharma
Hi,   Couple of questions:   1. SWAP partition must always be 2 x RAM? My machien has 48 GB RAM. I have to create 96GB SWAP partition? Isn't 4 GB or 8 GB good enough?     2. tempfs consumes half of RAM i.e. 24GB in my case as I have 48 GB of physical RAM installed. Can I reduce it to say 8GB?

Re: [ilugd] Question about SWAP and tempfs

2011-04-25 Thread Ankit Chaturvedi
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Amit Sharma amit_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Couple of questions: 1. SWAP partition must always be 2 x RAM? My machien has 48 GB RAM. I have to create 96GB SWAP partition? Isn't 4 GB or 8 GB good enough? 2xRAM is not a hard rule, you can have any amount of

Re: [ilugd] Question about SWAP and tempfs

2011-04-25 Thread Rakesh Kumar
[...] On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Amit Sharma amit_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Couple of questions: 1. SWAP partition must always be 2 x RAM? My machien has 48 GB RAM. I have to create 96GB SWAP partition? Isn't 4 GB or 8 GB good enough? [...] SWAP partition should be and not must be 2

Re: [ilugd] Open Source Technology in Rural Areas

2011-04-25 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM, ankIT WALiA ankitwali...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am working with an NGO M S Swaminathan Research Foundationhttp://mssrf.orgwho works to provide Information, Education, Communication and Technology for Rural India. They also work into other scientific