Dotan Cohen wrote:
I've just got a Dell laptop with 2GB RAM. 2*2.5=5GB of swap? This
seems like a bit much, but I'd like some opinions on the matter. Also,
I've heard that the swap should be as close to the center of the disk
as possible- does that mean that I should use hda1 as swap? Opinions
welcome. Thanks.
I have 2Gb of RAM on my Dell 5150 (3.2 Ghz P4).
I have 1 Gb of swap set up and I as I type this post, 176 Kb (yes Kb) is
in use. Given this, I am not sure that the location of the swap space
is critical.
Even when running heavy analyses using R (http://www.r-project.org/), I
rarely see much swap being used.
BTW, my swap is also encrypted (along with /home, /var and /tmp) using
dm-crypt/LUKS and I don't see any notable performance hit using a 7200
RPM 60 Gb HD.
The old guideline of using 2x RAM for swap is, I don't believe,
applicable with this much physical RAM installed and seems to me to be
a waste of HD space.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
