Kim C. Callis wrote:
>
> I have been having a devil of a time with getting any of my swap space
> addressed. Currently I have 128M of RAM and I had created a 128M swap
> partition
The only real purpose of swap space is for a system that doesn't have
alot of physical memory available. way back when linux was very becoming
available, someone had asked Linus if there was a way to do this since
he only had about 2mg of mem on his system and couldn't do anything
really exciting with it. So along came swap space which made this
possible. But as more computers are having more and more memory, swap
space is becoming less and less important, there will always be a need
for swap space as not everyone can afford to load up on all that
physical ram, but if you can afford the ram, then you won't need as much
swap space on your system.
Basically, to find out how much swap you actually would require. Heres
the method I have used. Fire up X, then launch about every program you
can think of and begin useing them and let them run for a day or so.
Then check your mem and see how much swap is being used. I usually set
swap to between 15 and 20 of what is being used so that I have a nice
bit of room to spare. in your case, since you say its not even using the
swap, I would trim that down to like 15 or 20 and let the rest be part
of the main partition.
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