I just got a brand new custom-built 8 gig machine. There's an outfit in north Toronto that has MSI motherboards with PS/2 ports, so I can keep my genuine IBM PS/2 clickety-clack-keyboard; wooooohooooo. And the integrated Intel graphics chip has *BOTH VGA AND DIGITAL OUTPUTS*!
Anyhow, I have 8 gigs of ram on the sytem (will obviously be 64-bit Gentoo) and I want to know how much swap I need. The general rule of thumb is twice the ram. In this case, it would be 16 gigs. I think that it may not need swap when up, unless I do some heavy duty stuff. My main concern about a swap partition is how much I need for hibernate-to-disk to work. Is there a rule about this, or should I simply allocate 16 gigs out of my terabyte drive, and play it safe? -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
