2009/6/5 Paul Sargent <[email protected]>:
>
> On Friday, June 5, 2009, ccandide <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> !! I installed Ubuntu with no swap space
>
> You always want some swap with linux, whatever you're doing. My rule
> of thumb is to allocate a swap partition twice the size of your ram.
> Granted I started with that rule back when my machine had 8MB of ram,
> but it still seams to work.

I had problems doing that on the last box I setup.  The sage.math
server has 128GB of RAM, but only about 70GB of internal SAS disk
space not allocated to the OS :-).

>
> Also consider a couple of gigs of ram for that machine as a cheap way
> of giving it a nice speed boost. That is unless it's rambus.
>
> >
>



-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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