Re: [Cooker] 4GB physical ram: need swap space?

[Blue Lizard]

I've done that before and it gave me a 243M swap partition.  I only have
96M of ram.

On 24 Mar 2001 10:50:03 -0700, Eaon wrote:
> Arnd,
> 
> That certainly is interesting, I hadn't heard that before (that swap
> should be 2*physical).  What are the implications of having a swap less
> than 2*physical?  You say it's "very bad", could you elaborate?
> 
> I ask because during the installation process of cooker, I let it
> automagically select my partition sizes (just cause I wanted to see if
> it worked :-)  ), and it made a swap partion exactly equal to my
> physical ram (actually a little less.  256 MB physical, 243 MB swap).
> If it is supposed to be 2*physical, then shouldn't the installer be
> changed to work that way?
> 
> Eaon
>