On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Shridhar Daithankar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 14:03:18 Owais Lone wrote: >> If you have more than 2 gigs of RAM, don't use swap. That's it. >> If you have less than 1 GB, use 1-2GB of Swap. > > Actually a 512MB of swap is recommended no matter how much RAM you have. Linux > just behaves better(I know its anecdotal/no hard facts) but linux loves to > have some swap around. > > -- > Regards > Shridhar >
i think what श्रीधर says is value, since 2-5 days back I kept getting warning during the installation of OS (openSUSE) and ML (MandrivaLinux) when there was no defined swap partition. So it is ... "even when you *swap nil*" you still neeeeed to define swap partition space aloecated. -- १. Stupid question always warrants a stupid answer! २. No question is ever stupid! _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
