On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Sanjay Sheth wrote:
> At 02:06 PM 1/2/00 , you wrote:
> >On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Sanjay Sheth wrote:
> >
> > > At 10:03 AM 1/2/00 , you wrote:
> > > >I'm new but... did you delete the partitions allready there first
> > > >because when i installed i could change almost at will..strange about
> > > >the 245m swap file though
> > >
> > > How about adjusting the code to set the max. auto-selected swap file size
> > > to amount of physical
> > > memory present (fairly good thumbrule i believe).
> >
> >No good for me, i need half a gig to build some things.
> >
> >32 + 32 = way not enough :)
>
> Notice I said auto-selected (for newbies) and you can always adjust it
> yourself anyways
> using diskDrake after it has"auto-allocated". I was just referring to the
> cases where the
> swap file ends up being 200+ MB (which at least for most "normal" users is
> quite a bit
> excessive and a big waste of space).
Let me clarify i guess. I wouldn't have less than 128megs. 386 or 1gig of
real ram. At current prices 254 megs of hd cost like 2$us. I personaly
can't recommend any less than 128 with todays uses.
