On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 08:22, David Fletcher wrote: > I've just ordered the parts to build a new PC :) > > The motherboard (Intel D865PERL) has four memory module sockets which can > take a total of 4G RAM. > > I have ordered a single 1G memory module, leaving me plenty of scope to > expand the memory later if I want to. > > Searching the Fedora List archive, I found various suggestions for > increasing swap space by either adding a partion if there is unused space > on the HDD or using mkswap to create a swap file in an existing partition. > Hard drive space is fairly cheap these days so I want to set it up "right > first time" so that I don't have to mess about if (when) I add more memory > later. > > Suggested swap partition sizes from the archives range from the same size > as the RAM to twice the size of the RAM. > > Given that I'm going to start with 1G of RAM, but could (but maybe won't) > end up with 4G of RAM, I'm thinking that maybe 6G would be a sensible size > for the swap partition. > > What do the members think? > > Thanks, > > Dave Fletcher Dave The rule of thumb is twice the RAM, but the more RAM you have, the less swap is used. I'd start with 2Gig, and add as required if/when you upgrade. The process is easy enough, but keep watching your memory usage, as you may find you actually don't need to increase swap size. If you really really don't want to worry about changing swap later, go with 6Gig ... it should suffice for just about everything, unless you run memory intensive programs. I can't think of a standard FC application that would hog memory that much. (OK, you can all tell me you know better now, but I am generalising :p) -- Tony Dietrich ------------- Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, D.C.
