Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition THANKS!!.

2000-12-19 Thread Adrian Smith
Holly said the below: BTW, for the person in the thread who had the very large swap space -- 2GB I think? I'm not deep enough into Linux to say for sure, but even in the Windoze world there was a point at which increasing swap space actually brought a negative return. I wonder if you sized that

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition THANKS!!.

2000-12-13 Thread Holly Henry-Pilkington
[snippage of the swap discussion for brevity :) ] I remembered reading something recently about the old salt of making swap equal to the size of your RAM being outdated. As I got to this stage in the thread, it struck me where. I actually bought the package for 7.2 because my burner was on the fr

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition THANKS!!.

2000-12-13 Thread bags_maillist
On Thursday 14 December 2000 h:09, you wrote: > this will shock everyone, but Tom seems to be right =) > *amazed silence* > actually, Tom is about 99% right but > when i installed linux first i had 60M ram and made a swap of 500M > (i have disk space to burn) > the swap was used somewhat