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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2005-07-18 at 19:20 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
So when I told it to go ahead with this install, it errored out again because the swap partitions interfered with each other. So my question is this: SuSE wants a 900mb swap partition, but will it run OK with the 509mb swap partition?
The direct answer is yes. But 900Mb swap for a machine with 128Mb is overkill. There is a rule of thumb, but I can't remember what it is :-( - in your case, I would probably opt for a 256M swap partition.
That "rule of thumb" was invented for windows, it makes no sense in Linux. There is no "rule", simply use as much or as little as you need, regardless on how much RAM there is available. It depends on the programs that will be run and their memory requirement. I have systems with about 20 times more swap than ram... For example, if you want to use the suspend to disk feature of 9.3, a large swap is required, and 1 gig would be nice. So, 900Mb is not an overkill, not really. Maybe not needed, but maybe it is - depends on what apps the OP uses... I personally think 500 Mb could be scarce. And no, I do not accept naming HD memory as RAM memory, for one thing: it is not directly addressable by the processor, thus it is not even "memory". Reading from HD requires a program, as it resides in a peripheral device. I call it "long term external storage space" ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFC4AbEtTMYHG2NR9URAkD9AKCWgQhQxG4HygkMzxZQ3kVuTo2rzQCfbY/k hQcQjSlEeiVOKyJvlPrhk3E= =wS0+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----