On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 15:41 -0400, Nate Pearlstein wrote: > 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: > > http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/28/swap-space/ >
OK, 1. If you have 2 or more GB o memory you do not need a RAM x 2 swapper space 2. A swapper space of >2 GB is not need it. 3. If you want to use the swap for hibernation you need a swapper space = RAM + video memory These is all I got from this thread. Q: how do you setup hibernation to use the swap space? I have a thinkpad x40 and x61 Thank you. -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
