On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:20:56PM +0200, thedogfarted wrote: > I doubt you need to increase swap unless you already experience a lack > of swap space. I have 512M RAM and only 256M swap space, but i've never > had more that 50% of swap space used. > > 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 > > We seem to be in a size war. 512MB of Ram makes a big difference over 256MB of Ram. Again the speed of the processor makes a difference. Also how much you have installed. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx