Robert Lewis wrote: > 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? > > Is there any harm doing what we did? > Read what Russel Cocker has to say at this link:
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