On Saturday 24 March 2001 12:07, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, James, Rick wrote:
[...]
>
> Since 2.4, the situation has changed a bit. You now can have either
> _no_ swap or swap > 2* phyisical memory, which would be 8GB.
> Running the system with anything between that (0 < swapspace < 8GB for
> you) is considered very bad now and the recommendation remains to
> enable swap.
[...]

Could you explain this further, please?  I have 384MB RAM and a swap file 
about the same size.  I have sufficient disk space to double the swap file 
size, but as it is there is never more than 1MB used.
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