On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 16:37, Jim C wrote:
> I'm a little confused here.  Shouldn't adding memory to a box mean you 
> don't need as much swap?

My understanding is that in a way you are right, in a way not. (Hows
that for a definitive answer.)  More ram decreases the likely hood of
needing to use swap but the old rule of thumb 2x ram=swap still is
applied.  I will be honest in saying that above about 256M or ram  the
only thing I use swap for is suspend space based on what I do.  In fact
I did pull a real boner about 6 months ago and built a box with 768M ram
and forgot to create a swap partition.  It ran pretty well for a long
time... we noticed it when it went into an infinite loop one day.
(programing loop.) and it was trying to page.  Put an old 2gig in it as
a swap drive just in case but it really didn't "improve" things at all
except when the infinite loop is run. 

James
> 
> Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote:
> > Hi List!
> > 
> > I got more Mem to my box and now my swap partition is not adequated.
> > My main partition is ReiserFS.  I could use DiskDrake to resize fat32 bits
> > in the past (amazing tool!).
> > 
> > Two question:
> >     - Is it true that Diskdrake at MDK 9.1 can resize NTFS partitions?
> >     - Is there any other way of resizing ReizerFS and Swap partitions
> > without using another HD?
> > TIA
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > -----------------------
> > Alan Wilter S. da Silva
> > -----------------------
> >  Laborat�rio de F�sica Biol�gica
> >   Instituto de Biof�sica Carlos Chagas Filho
> >    Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
> >     Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
> > 
> > 
> > 
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