[PLUG] Ideal Swap partition size

Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon at thenilgiris.com
Thu Mar 20 12:18:05 IST 2008


On 20-Mar-08, at 12:10 PM, Devendra Laulkar wrote:

> I would like to know the ideal swap partition size for new  
> computers which
> typically come with > 1 Gigs of RAM.

ideal is no swap - swap slows things down, and with gigs of RAM you  
dont need swap. But keep a 500 MB swap space handy for those rare  
occasions when you may need swap - and keep swap turned off.

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