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08-13-2005, 04:42 PM
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more swap space?
I just got another gig of RAM (total of 1536MB now). Now I have to make a larger swap space (I just make one double the size of my RAM) CAn I just go into fdisk, delete my current swap, and make a larger one without doing anything to my other partitions?
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08-13-2005, 08:57 PM
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How much swap space do you now have? I've read things on both sides of the argument for having swap space equal to ram, and from what I've seen after you have so much swap space it's almost counterproductive to keep it at a 1-to-1 ratio with ram.
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08-14-2005, 01:03 PM
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I have 512MB of ram and 1024MB of swap space.
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08-14-2005, 10:24 PM
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You have more than enough swap space. Personally, I've never seen any of my Linux boxes use more than 20 megs of the swap partition, and then I had to open about 30 applications at the same time. That's with 512 megs of ram.
The old rule of thumb for swap partition = 2 * ram is very outdated. That was put in place when having 32 megs of ram was a lot of ram on a computer. With 512 megs of ram the swap partition is rarely used. A heavily loaded server might use the swap partition more, but a desktop is going to use swap very rarely. |
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