On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 08:47:36AM -0700, Mike Witt wrote: > 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? Well, one of the issues is: if you're using swap _at all_, your system is going to be horribly slow. In my estimation, unbearable for interactive use -- others may have more patience. Swap should be there for emergencies (and perhaps so long-running processess that rarely get used get moved out of the way -- but that's only going to be a few megabytes at most). On a system with only 128MB of RAM, I'd try to run as lightweight an environment as possible. Ditch GNOME and KDE, to start.... -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
