But, doesn't it diminish in usefulness at some point? Would you create a 2Gb swap partition on a machine with 1Gb of RAM? I'm currently running with no swap and have seen no ill effects (as far as I know, anyway). This includes running several simultaneous compiles where top reports RAM usage up in the 90% range. Id like to see a definitive HOWTO on swap under current computing conditions. Everything I've run across seems to have been written with 16Mb, or 32Mb systems in mind. Barry Pollock writes: > From: Barry Pollock <barryp at mail.hurontel.on.ca> > > > It is a matter of prefference for swap size. > It depends on what you wish. > You can make the swap size twice the ram. > The system can use up to 8 times the ram size. > 512 meg would be the most efficient for 256 meg of ram > Barry > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
