John Carter wrote, On 26/02/09 13:04:
Swap usually 2 * ram, although disk is _so_ very very very much slower
than ram these days and ram is getting so much larger. I'd perhaps
drop that to swap == sizeof ram.
Spot the old fart!
Try "sudo swapoff -a" on your linux machine, and then run it like normal
for a few weeks.
I bet you'll notice no differences. And now with ram at $25-$30 for 1GB
DDR2 its cheap to have lots of memory in your PC.
8GB (4x2GB) Adata DDR2 800 MHz is $200+GST
Sadly DDR1 is three times the price of DDR2, so those with old machines
are out of luck.
--
Craig Falconer
