Well as a user, your decision about the size of the swap space does not
influence the way or the amount the kernal wants to spare as swap
Increasing swap space does not mean you are forcing or letting the kernel to
put more stuff into the virtual memory
The kernel has the reasons to itself and it decides during runtime what to
do
Therefore I always think about my share of work when I think about swap
space. Like if I want to run JAVA on my machine especially with some heavy
code, I would need more swap because swap is eaten up in JAVA runtime. If my
machine is a development platform or even if I want to be able to compile 10
things at a time, I need more swap space so that GCC can feel some fresh air
during runtime. Things like that that are related to me. Not the OS.
My choice is always a 32MB for a simple installation and 64MB for a
wanna-do-more installation.
----- Original Message -----
From: P. R. Seshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Space lost !!
> afasik, Linux simply takes all the area that you define as swap thereby
putting less load on the physical RAM. and I guess it is also
> true that we need at least twice the amount of RAM for swap space. I've
128 MB RAM and hence I'd give 250 MB swap.
>
> I hope my understanding is corrrect, If there are some differences pl.
update me on the same.
>
>
> "Nagarjuna G." wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Seshan wrote:
> >
> > ->: I had installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 on a 4.3 GB hdd. I had about ~3.8
GB
> > ->: for Linux Native and about ~255 MB for the Swap partition. Now that
I
> > ->: have to release the hdd, I run fdisk under dos 6.22. Fdisk dose not
> > ->: recognise the swap partition but it shows a non-dos partition of 255
MB
> > ->: but does not allow me to delete it.
> > ->:
> > ->: I also tried Fdisk /mbr but in vain.
> > ->:
> >
> > Any linux related partitions cannot be handled by fdisk of dos. Use
fdisk
> > from linux to get what you want.
> >
> > Also are you sure linux supports swap partitions greater than 128MB?
> > You can have more than one swap partition but not larger than 128MB.
> > Am I right?
> >
> > Nagarjuna
> >
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> -----
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