J. David Boyd wrote:
As long as you are not using software suspend, you should not have any problems. The double your physical memory rule of thumb dates back to UNIX systems. I think it had to do with core file creation, where you needed enough swap space to hold the current memory image, plus other overhead. Now days, unless you are running a low memory machine, having a swap partition as large as your physical memory should be more then enough, unless you are using software suspend. For software suspend, you need a swap partition big enough for your system memory, plus a bit more for things like CPU state, and video... This is on top of your normal swap usage.My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory.
When I set up the system, I went with the "double your memory for swap space" rule.
Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M.
How do I double the memory size for swap space?
Is there some easy way, or am I going to need to get some kind of partition editor, and start moving things around?
Any idea of the consequences of NOT resizing my swap space, but leaving it at 500M?
Thanks for any ideas,
Dave
If you run the free command, it will show you how much of your current swap partition is being used. If you are using most of it, then you need to add more. But chances are, your current space is plenty. If you have to add more, there are a couple of ways to do it. You can add a second swap partition, or create a swap file on a current partition. You used to be limited to 16 swap partitions, but that limit is gone, and I am not sure what the current one is. I have never used more the 3 on one machine. (1 per drive...)
Mikkel
____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ____________________________________________________
