Robert Lewis wrote: > I helped a friend install 10.3 64-bit on his Q6600 > machine that has 4-GB of ram yesterday. > Wow was the installation fast. > > SUSE setup a 2-GB swap space by default. > > We over road that and made it 4-GB.
Why? If you really need that much virtual memory, you should upgrade your RAM. It doesn't make sense to have such huge swap partitions, your system will be unusable if you need 4 GB swap (well, sort of unusable). And if you really need it at some point, you can always make a swap file which is almost as fast as a swap partition. If you want to use suspend to disk, then of course your swap space should be large enough. > Is this a bug/oversite or on purpose? Why should it be a bug? The times when swap partitions had to be as big (or bigger) as RAM size are long gone. > If on purpose what is the logic behind that? There's no need for huge swap partitions unless you want to use suspend to disk. And that's unlikely for a machine that seems to be used as a server. Th. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
