Mike:
I would recommend, with 128MB of ram, making your swap at least 256MB. I would more lean towards 512MB if you are running X. Actually, I would highly recommend against running X if you have less than 256MB of ram due to the requirements for X and most X based programs.
James McKenzie
Mike Witt wrote:
My newly installed FC2 systems is running a lot slower than I expected. I chose the "default" partitioning scheme suggested during installation. And fdisk now reports this as:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41174138880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5005 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 4981 39905460 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 4982 5005 192780 82 Linux swap
Isn't that around 188 Meg of swap space? My system has 128 Meg of memory, and in the past I seem to remember allocation about four times as much swap space as I had physical memory, with better results.
Am I nuts? Does swap space only need to be the size of physical memory? I don't really understand the issues here. Advice?
-Mike
