Hi Jason,
Jason Heeris wrote:
> I am working on a system with 512MB disk space and 256MB RAM... so you
> should see a potential problem here :) The usual calculation of swap =
> 2 x RAM is not very useful.
Good point. I do own a similar system, too, just with 4GB disk and 2GB
RAM. There I don't need swap, so I never thought about using
dphys-swapfile on such a system. But I know about the factor 2
default. :-)
> I created the system without a swap partition because I needed the
> flexibility of changing the swap size as I develop on it. When I
> installed dphys-swapfile, it tried to create a swapfile bigger than
> the disk and so failed to install. I then had to delete the swapfile,
> run dpkg -a --whatever, and purge dphys-swapfile.
>
> Can there be an debconf option to specify the size of the swap file
> *before* it attempts to create it?
Yeah, but no more for Squeeze. Would an updated package description
mentioning the factor two by default and creation on installation have
prevented your problem? Documentation is something which I can update
for Squeeze.
Regards, Axel
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