Craig Falconer wrote: > 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. > > I was trying to get my machine to Suspend to Ram or Suspend to Disk after a period of inactivity, but kept getting errors about there not being enough swap space. I increased the size of the swap partition to something ridiculous - 4x RAM, and can Suspend to RAM, but not to Disk.
I am tempted to try turning off swap and seeing if I can suspend the machine. BTW - it is a desktop machine. Don
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