Charles Baker, 2002-Feb-24 13:26 -0800: > I'm about to install sid, using unoffical iso's, on a > machine w/ 384MB of RAM. Old rule of thumb was > 2*RAM-SIZE = SWAP-SIZE . Do I really need 768MB of > swap space?!?!?! Plus, since the install uses 2.2.20 > kernel, will it be able to handle a swap space larger > than 128MB?
The swap size will depend on what you're using the system for. For a workstation/desktop type of system, I've always done 128MB swaps and when the RAM size goes above 128, I match the RAM and swap size. For a system serving an active website, dns, dhcpd, ftp, etc., which will have a minimum of 128MB (for me), I'll double the size of RAM for swap. This has worked for me so far...jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
