It's still not really clear for my when and if, how much swap space is needed.
There had been two opinions in this thread which clearly pointed to none at all - surely qualified, one from own experience re "workstations", the other (and that was the first time I heard about this at all) that swap is (only?) needed when compiling and in order to save a crash log. The definition of "total (virtual) memory needed" for a/one programm appears logical (and "natural"); but then, there should be some means of measurement of precisely this, in order to do some reasonable - and economic - decision on that workspace indeed needed. Furthermore, it seems rational to approach this in function of the actual use of (or installed) applications - i.e., to define, or even to resize if necessary (when a memory hog is added), the swap partition _after_ the otherwise complete installation of the "system". // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-12-12 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
