Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3175 mails)

["Joe Morris (NTM)" <Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 15:35, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
>   
>> dwain wrote:
>>     
>>> I am planning on adding a third hard drive to my mix.  I will be
>>> buying 2 new larger ones, one for root and one for home and i would
>>> like to use the third one as a swap drive.
>>>       
>> Swap is typically 2x your RAM.
>>     
>
> This is not a meaningful rule of thumb--it has nothing to do with 
> anything real. If anything, having more physical RAM means you need 
> less swap space to accommodate any given process mix.
>   
I think you may be forgetting if he uses suspend to disk, it needs to
fit the memory in his swap partition.  Not necessarily 2x, but more than 1x.

-- 
Joe Morris
Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64





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