Maynard Kuona said: > On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 16:44, Craig Thomas wrote: >> I have 256MB ram and a 502MB swap, and want to increase to 384MB ram, [i >> know, i know it's an old machine]. I've read in the RH manual and else >> where that double the amount of ram is "right". If I want more swap but >> don't have any unpartitioned space left, what are my options? (I do, >> however, have lots of free space on my drive). >> >> TIA >> >> -Craig >> > > If you remove the swap partition, it should swap to one of your linux > partitions. No, if you remove the swap partition you don't have any swap. > You may need to confirm this. Otherwise, you might want to > increase the swap partition size. Another option would be to use swap files. http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/x1790.html I haven't tried it personally, so YMMV. > The whole twice the amount of RAM you > have is a rule of thumb. If you do not expect to be swapping much, i.e., > you are not doing any intensive graphics work, then you will hardly use > your swap anyway. That is a very general statement that is wrong in a lot of cases. -- William Hooper
