well, yes and no. the old '2 x memory = swapsize' addage is sort of outdated. it may have applied when 128 was quite a bit more ram than most people had... now, if you have 256mb of swap, you'll be ok, regardless of what you have in physical ram. linux will continually put things in and out of swap, even if you're not running out of ram. it's ***OK***. it'll also keep things in memory for as long as possible, just to keep things faster. i'd only worry about increasing your swap space if you're filling it up past the 66% mark. if you're really concerned about it, then load up the system monitor (right click on the panel, add to panel, utility, system monitor). right click on it when it's loaded and enable swap monitoring. i'm on 256mb of ram right now and i RARELY go over 33%, which normally goes away when i close mozilla. -d ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leon Phelps" <leon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:57:29 -0500 (EST) To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: new memory = more swap? > 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 > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list +( duncan brown +( duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxx +( http://www.linuxadvocate.net she's crashing her car in an intersection she did not see the light she's walking round and round in a shopping mall as if she had no sight dreams are only clouds that form and dissipate the sky is a highway for metal birds and land is real estate she does not understand her world depends upon a history of lies she walks right by all her old high school friends for she has dollar signs in her eyes - the dead milkmen, "dollar signs in her eyes"
