Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

I had 64MB earlier this year. With this, running GNOME 1.1, I constantly had 
over 50% usage of my 128MB swap. My HDD was constantly churning, and my 
system was pretty slow. After my upgrade to 192MB, things were *much* faster. 
I only really needed my swap when running VMware. I did not gain much more in 
performance (if any) following my upgrade to 256MB (unless I was running 
VMware). From this, I believe 128MB is the sweet spot for Linux with KDE or 
GNOME. RAM nowadays is very cheap, so it's worth getting more. It also 
reduces power consumption, heat, and wear & tear on your HDD.

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:15, Roger Sherman wrote:
> How much of a difference did you notice? I have 64 meg RAM, and am
> strongly considering adding 128 more...will it be worth the time and
> money?

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Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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