On 10/28/07, Thomas Hertweck
Robert Lewis wrote:
I helped a friend install 10.3 64-bit on his Q6600 machine that has 4-GB of ram yesterday. Wow was the installation fast.
SUSE setup a 2-GB swap space by default.
We over road that and made it 4-GB.
Why?
If you really need that much virtual memory, you should upgrade your RAM. It doesn't make sense to have such huge swap partitions, your system will be unusable if you need 4 GB swap (well, sort of unusable). And if you really need it at some point, you can always make a swap file which is almost as fast as a swap partition.
If you want to use suspend to disk, then of course your swap space should be large enough.
Is this a bug/oversite or on purpose?
Why should it be a bug? The times when swap partitions had to be as big (or bigger) as RAM size are long gone.
If on purpose what is the logic behind that?
There's no need for huge swap partitions unless you want to use suspend to disk. And that's unlikely for a machine that seems to be used as a server.
Th. --
The reason both of us did this is we came from a world in Linux where one always made swap the size of RAM or larger to allow for later ram expansion. I agree swapping to a file is a good way to expand swap down stream. How did SUSE decide to set it to 2-GB and why? Is there any harm doing what we did? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org