[CS-FSLUG] Oh man

[Fred A. Miller]

On Saturday 30 July 2005 8:39 am, mash. wrote:
> On 7/30/05, David M <david at davidcentral.net> wrote:
> > On Saturday July 30 2005 7:21 am, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > > On Saturday 30 July 2005 1:32 am, Nathan T. wrote:
> > > Nathan, MOST Linux distros. only create a swap file, not a partitian,
> > > if you don't do any "custom" setup during the install. I prefer to
> > > define my partitions including a 2G swap.
> >
> > 2G? Wow thats a lot.
> >
> > --
> > David M.
>
> Correct me if I am wrong but you really do not need 2GB of swap !
> Moreso swap space is in fact limited to 2 GB tops.

No, that was removed sometime ago.

> To be honest you could set your swap to about 500 MB
> that should do, with the amount of RAM you have it would hardly be touched.
> I know they say double RAM equals SWAP size but I believe that was
> when we were using 64 MB or RAM (such as) back in the day.
>
> Rather use the space then using it as SWAP.

I have a gig of RAM, and I NEED a big swap partitian. You don't do the type of 
work I do.

Fred

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