but what about the original post in this thread that said he wanted swap
first, before /usr or / ????
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem
> > I've got 128MB of RAM and the Swap is only 96MB. When I was running
> > Caldera Open Linux 2.2, I never saw any of it being used. When I
installed
> > Mandrake 7.1, swap utilization came up to 2-3%. I suppose if were doing
> > some heavy development work and creating huge programs, I would see it
go up.
> > For me personally, I don't see the need to use up more disk space for an
> > area that is seeing little usage.
>
> Running large programs is probably more likely to place demands on swap
> than developing them. If you've got, say Word Perfect/Wine, a
> spreadsheet program, email tool, and Netscape open (I often have
> this situation) you'll probably see more swap usage :-) But I think
> that's the point. The notion that swap "should be" 128m or "twice your
> RAM" is pure folly. Swap demands, as you well know, is dependent upon
> memory usage.
>
> Cheers --- Larry
>
>
>
