Feizhou wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:I am considering installing CentOS 4.4, and am interested in how best to set up. I have been using FC2 and helping administer a Debian machine for a few years, but do not consider myself a Linux guru. My current set up uses a /swap partition which is 2x my memory sizeThis is a completely false premise that has no basis in Linux or even in verions of Solaris after SunOS4. Only SunOS4 *REQUIRED* swap be twice the amount of RAM due to how its VM was implemented. The best of part of this is that this is actually a part of the 'knowledge' that the LPI examinations will examine you on.With regards to swap, on servers you want to tune things such that swap is NEVER used but do create some swap space to handle edge cases. On desktops, create as much swap as you wish to handle firefox, thunderbird or whatever memory hungry GTK application you have. Of course, the more RAM you have, the merrier.
Of course. But I'm a laid-off engineer. If you like, I'd gladly take donations for more RAM. In the meantime, this machine remains 256M. This is a single-user desktop with no external access servers like SSH, Apache, or NFS running. I have a firewall to enforce no external access, which "stealths" all ports except the e-mail port, which is denied. I find that on my machine, memory usage often looks like this: Mem: 248088k total, 244192k used, 3896k free, 11860k buffers Swap: 524120k total, 182916k used, 341204k free, 43576k cached [snip]
I would therefore put at least /home and /var on separate partitions if it were a server where /home had data. If not, /var will be on its own. If it were my home desktop, /home definitely gets its own partition.
Thanks for the reply.
Mike
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