The idea with swap space is to prevent you from running out of memory. Filling all of your memory and your swap is a Bad Thing(TM). You need enough swap space such that it will never fill up.
If you have lots of memory, you'll never use your swap, so having a big swap partition is just wasted disk space. If you are doing video editing, lots of graphic manipulation, hard core gaming, or something else that takes lots of memory, you'll need lots of swap space. I do minor graphics editing, programming and compiling, word processing, and basic games. I run KDE, OpenOffice, Mozilla, and various other memory hog applications. I have 512 MB RAM and 400 MB swap. I almost never use more than 100 MB swap. On those rare occasions, I notice that I am using a lot of swap because my system slows down from the paging. I personally think that unless you are doing something memory intensive, 700MB+ of RAM is a lot of memory and over 300MB swap is overkill. But that is just one person's opinion. Richard Esplin On Saturday 29 January 2005 20:27, edzaid Mendez wrote: > Hi, > > I hope I don't get flamed for this question. > What is the recommeded size for the swap partition ? > > I know that when the memory was small (<128Mb) it was recommended > to be twice as much as the physical memory. > > I have a laptop with 768 Mb, should I have a 1.5Gb swap partition ? > > Thanks > > Edzaid -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
