[CS-FSLUG] Trivial questions

[N. Thompson]

I've always heard that the swap partition should be double the ram or at least 
128 Mb however I've always stuck with 500 Mb of swap despite having 512 Mb of 
ram now and I've had no trouble.

On Monday 24 May 2004 12:22 pm, Eduardo Sanchez wrote:
> Hi listpeople,
>
> This is just to ask some questions, apologizing in advance for my
> laziness in finding the answer.
>
> My Slack system uses the kernel 2.4.26. My questions are:
>
> 1. What is the RAM size/swapfile size ratio? I.e., how much swapfile
> should I have?
>
> 2. If I have a RAM of size X with a swapfile of size Y, and I suddenly
> upgrade the RAM to 2X, should I increase the swapfile size? how much?
> how can I do it if it is necessary?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Eduardo