Robert Lewis wrote: > [...] > 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.
That doesn't make sense nowadays. When you add more RAM, then you usually need less swap. As I said before, the times when swap space had to be as big as (or even double) the RAM size are long gone. > I agree swapping to a file is a good way to expand > swap down stream. It's an easy way to provide enough virtual memory in those rare circumstances where it might be required. Again, in the good old times swap files where a lot slower than swap partitions, but this does no longer hold with kernel 2.6. > How did SUSE decide to set it to 2-GB and why? Well, look at the source code of the installation program to find out why it has chosen 2 GB of swap. Maybe it's the upper limit. Having more than that usually does not make much sense. > Is there any harm doing what we did? There's no harm, it's just a waste of disk space. Th. PS. I don't need and I don't want private copies of list emails! Why would somebody want to receive all emails twice? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
