On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 11:20 -0500, BOB HERZOG wrote:
I have a LSI Raid card with three 160 gb drives doing raid 5. The default swap is 1 gb do I need to up this default setting? What is the swap file used for?
thanks bob
The size depends on a number of factors such as what is running on the machine, how much physical ram is installed, etc. For normal everyday desktop use this should be enough. swap is used as an extension to installed ram and is used to store programs that are not currently running is ram when ram is in short supply (many programs running at the same time), sorta. There is more to it than that but I wanted to try and keep an answer simple. 10-20 years ago ram was $40 or more per megabyte and swap was a cheaper alternative to buying more ram. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge