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
[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equal to the size of your RAM being outdated.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
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