Lo, on Sunday, February 24, Charles Baker did write: > 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?
I don't remember the exact details, but the 128M limit on swap space was relaxed quite some time ago. 2.2.20 should handle a single 768M swap partition/file quite nicely. You'd need to know what you're planning on using the machine for in order to decide if 768M swapspace is really necessary. Richard