I concur. It is unlikely that you will need/want to increase your amount of swap. You can monitor your swap usage if you feel that your machine is lacking, and increase it if the utilization is high. -Leon > 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) > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
