On Wednesday 16 July 2003 12:20, Kevin McDermott wrote: > * Kyle Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jul 16. 2003 12:15]: > > On a slightly related note, with the new 2.6 kernel you now get suspend > > to swap. This can be slightly problematic if you have less swap than (in > > use) RAM > > > > I see your point though, 2xRAM swap does seem slightly excessive, and is > > probably useless, unless you have a laptop that you wish to use swsusp > > on. Even then you'd probably only need a little bit more swap than you > > have RAM. > > Disk is cheap, RAM isn't as cheap, even with 4Gb of RAM you only need 8Gb > of SWAP space (at 2xSwap), given that 80Gb and 120Gb disks are becoming the > norm, 8Gb of disk space doesn't seem that bad... > > Perhaps 8Gb is excessive, but, it's a tried and tested rule-of-thumb. > > > Talking of which... is there anyway to assign X amount of swap, but only > > let the kernel use a specific amount? > > To what end? > > If you're using swap on LVM, you can alter the swap-space at will (this is > highly recommended on boxes where you think you're gonna boost the RAM). > I'd like to use swsusp to suspend my laptop to disk. However, with 256Mb RAM, and my affection for KDE, I regularly find myself eating into the 256Mb swap that I have. I might, in some instances, be using a total of say, 300Mb, so it attempts to save 300Mb into a 256 swapspace... I could resize my partitions to cope (lack of foresight - my fault anyway) and give it more swap, but how can I be sure that it doesn't use up more that space either?
I know this may sound strange, and I've probably got the wrong end of the stick when it comes to swap matters, so feel free to LART me. Regards Kyle _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish