On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:50 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Hello folks, > ... > I have 768MB of RAM and so far I haven't seen it use any swap. So I'm > planning on a 256MB swap partition. Also, there will be a /boot which > would be about 50MB. > Traditionally swap was set to twice ram: I think it was because a crash can cause the ram contents to be written to swap for recovery - no longer relevant I believe. If you intend using software suspend you will also need something like twice ram. If you do any graphics work, be prepared to use a LOT of swap. Using gimp on multiple 300M tif files can easily chew up gigabytes of swap, as can some versions of gnumeric. In short, err on the side of safety or you will find yourself repartitioning ... I use 2 G on one machine with 1G ram (inadequate) and 3G swap/1G ram on another (also inadequate), however my gateway/emergency desktop has 1G swap (and 512 RAM) which is usually barely touched unless I start X. I use a swap file (vice a swap partition) which I can quickly add when I am running out of swap space - works but terribly slow!
> Now for the important part. I am planning on using ccache and keepwork > feature with portage. I'm wondering where I should set these two > directories. How much space should I reserve for them and in which > partition(s)? .. 80 G may not be enough with keepwork! Its best enable for just those packages where you need it. The /var/tmp directory fills up quick enough as is ... BillK -- [email protected] mailing list
