Should I be concerned about this message during a fresh install on a brand new hard drive? I have 1GB of physical memory. How necessary is the swap partition? Thanks for any pointers. Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA USA) cygnia@sonic.net
On Saturday 22 May 2004 10:48 pm, cygnia@sonic.net wrote:
Should I be concerned about this message during a fresh install on a brand new hard drive? I have 1GB of physical memory. How necessary is the swap partition? Thanks for any pointers.
Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA USA) cygnia@sonic.net I'm running 9.1 on a box with 1GiB of memory. I do have a 1 GiB /swap as well, however, my machine never uses it. I really put this machine through its paces with development work, and I can't seem to run out of ram (except for the odd memory leak(s) in buggy programs).
If the machine works OK, I wouldn't worry about it. Regards, Mark
Should I be concerned about this message during a fresh install on a brand new hard drive? I have 1GB of physical memory. How necessary is the swap partition? Thanks for any pointers. A Swap partition is good to have, but not entirely necessary. You can also create a swap file on your system. The mkswap(8) man page has instructions for doing this. In Linux, the swapon(8) command turns on
On Sat, 22 May 2004 22:48:08 -0700 (PDT)
cygnia@sonic.net wrote:
the spap space, and swapoff(8) turns it off. The swapon(8) is performed
on each swap space defined in /etc/fstab when you transition to
multi-user mode during bootup. But, you can issue these commands
manually.
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Jerry Feldman
A Swap partition is good to have, but not entirely necessary. You can also create a swap file on your system. The mkswap(8) man page has instructions for doing this. In Linux, the swapon(8) command turns on the spap space, and swapoff(8) turns it off. The swapon(8) is performed on each swap space defined in /etc/fstab when you transition to multi-user mode during bootup. But, you can issue these commands manually.
Thanks for the info. I also thought I'd look into the YAST module about partitioning, but it seems like a pretty important thing to do to the setup. I didn't want to mess with anything I'd regret later. Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA USA) cygnia@sonic.net
On Sun, 23 May 2004 07:19:45 -0700 (PDT) cygnia@sonic.net wrote:
A Swap partition is good to have, but not entirely necessary. You can also create a swap file on your system. The mkswap(8) man page has instructions for doing this. In Linux, the swapon(8) command turns on the spap space, and swapoff(8) turns it off. The swapon(8) is performed on each swap space defined in /etc/fstab when you transition to multi-user mode during bootup. But, you can issue these commands manually.
Thanks for the info. I also thought I'd look into the YAST module about partitioning, but it seems like a pretty important thing to do to the setup. I didn't want to mess with anything I'd regret later. It is better to have a swap partition, but setting up a swap file is easy to do. I would strongly recommend that every Linux system should have at least one swap file, but with very large memory systems, it is less important. -- Jerry Feldman
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