Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Richard (MQ) wrote:
(*) making a swap is well documented elsewhere, but in essence use fdisk to create a partition ~ 2x RAM size & of type 'swap'.
Twice the size of RAM was common a rule of thumb a decade or so ago; these days we recommend at most the size of RAM.
Without wanting to get into a flame war, I'd quite agree that 1x is sensible on 'normal' systems with plenty of RAM. However, we're talking here specifically about a machine sporting 'only' 256M. I do a lot of installations on such low-end kit and would generally use 2x, I also often see (on such systems) swap usage > 50%, which I feel justifies it. -- Cheers Richard (MQ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org