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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
