On Wednesday 08 October 2003 05:32 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> a) rules of thumb are always at least a little wrong
> b) is it wasteful if you only use it every few months? How about once a
> year?
>
> In all honesty, I hardly ever touch swap; it's my safety net for runaway
> processes and the occassional heavy-duty Gimp-ing. If I see the swap
> meter on gkrellm moving, I immediately open a terminal and sudo top,
> cause something needs killing :-)
>
> All that goes out the window if your work pattern does rely on swap
> (e.g. a graphic designer, or anyone using Gentoo). In that case, I'd say
> devoting two or three percent of the disk space to swap is no big deal.
Thanks for the info! :-)
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