Re: How much swap space is needed

2003-06-02 Thread Kent Borg
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 07:51:06PM -0600, Ryan McDougall wrote: > In your case... Id probably set it to 512, or 1024 depending on how > much disk space you can spare. I was thinking about this more this afternoon. I was imagining buying a frugal but killer box. Say I picked up a parts catelogue

Re: How much swap space is needed

2003-06-02 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 15:50, Kent Borg wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:42:03PM +0800, Lao Yu wrote: > > I have a PC of 768M memory. How much swap space should I allocate in > > my Red Hat 8.0? According to the manual, it should be 2 X 768 = 1536 > > M. Is this too much? > > Here are some consi

Re: How much swap space is needed

2003-06-02 Thread Kent Borg
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:42:03PM +0800, Lao Yu wrote: > I have a PC of 768M memory. How much swap space should I allocate in > my Red Hat 8.0? According to the manual, it should be 2 X 768 = 1536 > M. Is this too much? Here are some considerations: 1) Disk space is cheap, having too much swap i