On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 11:38, Adolfo Bello wrote: > This answers a question I posted a few days ago about the size of the > swap partition. Thanks.
For most of us - MOST of us, having a swap file that exceeds the size of the physical RAM is useless and pointless. Unless you're doing really high end stuff that requires large amounts of TEMP and SWAP space. Burning DVD's and whatnot might be easier - but that's also dependent on how the program was written; if the program was written to require large amounts of swap/temp - but most of them really aren't. Using like Cinelerra, for instance, you WILL use large amounts of TEMP and SWAP - so having large sized partitions will get you faster and possibly cleaner results. But overall, the "common" linux geek, er, user, isn't going to require anything more than the size of their physical RAM - even the ones that download large amounts of porno movies and pictures - it ain't going to speed up their picture viewers or movie players very much. Ditto with the music stealers, er, MP3 "traders"....(grin) -- Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:45:00 +1100 11:45am up 28 min, 3 users, load average: 0.24, 0.28, 0.26 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ People need good lies. There are too many bad ones. -- Bokonon, "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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