On 2003.07.16 10:01 willie fleming wrote:
Many users now have 512Mb RAM. Do we really need to allocate 2x RAM
for swap?
No, not really. The virtual memory subsystem pre ~2.10 mapped your all
the contents of RAM onto the swap, so so unless you had more swap than
RAM, then in effect you had _no_
On 2003.07.17 11:08 Lawrence Sweeney wrote:
On 2003.07.16 10:01 willie fleming wrote:
Many users now have 512Mb RAM. Do we really need to allocate 2x RAM
for swap?
No, not really. The virtual memory subsystem pre ~2.10 mapped your
s/2.10/2.4.10/
sorry :-)
ls
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
Talking of which... is there anyway to assign X amount of swap, but only let
the kernel use a specific amount?
I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Would creating multiple
swap partitions but only telling the kernel about some of them do what
you want?
Steven Murdoch.
* 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
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
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 12:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Talking of which... is there anyway to assign X amount of swap, but only
let the kernel use a specific amount?
I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Would creating multiple
swap partitions but only telling the kernel about some
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Kyle Gordon wrote:
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
