Re: new memory = more swap?

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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



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