Robert Lewis wrote:
[...] 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.
That doesn't make sense nowadays. When you add more RAM, then you usually need less swap. As I said before, the times when swap space had to be as big as (or even double) the RAM size are long gone.
I agree swapping to a file is a good way to expand swap down stream.
It's an easy way to provide enough virtual memory in those rare circumstances where it might be required. Again, in the good old times swap files where a lot slower than swap partitions, but this does no longer hold with kernel 2.6.
How did SUSE decide to set it to 2-GB and why?
Well, look at the source code of the installation program to find out why it has chosen 2 GB of swap. Maybe it's the upper limit. Having more than that usually does not make much sense.
Is there any harm doing what we did?
There's no harm, it's just a waste of disk space. Th. PS. I don't need and I don't want private copies of list emails! Why would somebody want to receive all emails twice? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org