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). The advice that swap=2(RAM) dates from the time when RAM was expensive and few user machines had more than 64MB. These days most people have plenty of RAM and thus require less swap space. I have 384MB RAM and a 256MB swap partition that is seldom more than 25% used. -- -John (JohnThompson@xxxxxxxxxx)
