RE: creating swap partition

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Yau
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:49:34PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > > Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be > relative to the size of the drive? > > Your RAM size matters, not the HDD. > > First of all, you don't want to swap _at all_: buy yourself more RAM, > it's cheap nowada

Re: creating swap partition

2004-02-24 Thread Roberto Sanchez
John Schmidt wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2004 07:49 pm, xucaen wrote: Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be relative to the size of the drive? another quickie.. does each hard drive need it's own swap partition? thanks! Jim A good rule of thumb is that the size of

Re: creating swap partition

2004-02-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, xucaen wrote: > Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be relative to the size > of the drive? > > another quickie.. does each hard drive need it's own swap partition? swap should be 256MB or so ... if you see that your system is using more than 6

Re: creating swap partition

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:49:34PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be relative to the size > of the drive? Your RAM size matters, not the HDD. First of all, you don't want to swap _at all_: buy yourself more RAM, it's cheap nowadays. Swapping

Re: creating swap partition

2004-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 07:49 pm, xucaen wrote: > Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be relative to > the size of the drive? > > another quickie.. does each hard drive need it's own swap partition? > > thanks! > > Jim A good rule of thumb is that the size of swap sho