On 10/28/07, Thomas Hertweck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > -- The reason both of us did this is we came from a world in Linux where one always made swap the size of RAM or larger to allow for later ram expansion. I agree swapping to a file is a good way to expand swap down stream. How did SUSE decide to set it to 2-GB and why?
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