On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 18:27 -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > One note that should maybe be added to the speakup documentation for > > slackware is about swap partitions needing to be twice the ram size > > that's on a computer. > > This is a completely false statement, that for some reason gets propagated > over and over again. From what I understand, the idea dates back to an > early version of BSD which would duplicate all of your RAM to swap space, > thus creating a redundant copy of RAM. So, you had to have more swap than > ram in order to have any swap space at all. The way Linux, and most other > operating systems do it is to append swap to RAM, so if you have 1GB of > RAM, and 2GB of swap, you effectively have 3GB of memory. I have 1GB of > RAM on my system, and almost never use any swap space. Of course, if I > ran Gnome, I might use some of it, but I doubt I'd come even close to 2GB. I have 2gb of ram, and 3gb of swap.... but then, that's because I have 3 hard drives in a raid5 and about 1.5 tb disk space overall, and to keep partitions lined up I ended up with 1gb partitions on each disk so....i just made it swap... and I never use it lol.
