Swap Question

One more question...How would I know if I need to increase the size of
my swap partition?

Thanks!

Mark Phillips
Phillips Marketing, Inc.
602 524-0376 office
480 945-9197 fax
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
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From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
der.hans
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:08 PM
To: Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: Swap Question

Am 13. Jan, 2004 schw=E4tzte Mark Phillips so:

> When I installed Debian unstable on my laptop it had 128 MB of RAM. I
am
> planning to add 512MB of RAM (total of 640 MB). Do I need to increase
my
> swap space?

You're probably fine.

> Right now I have 256MB of swap (I think) based on the old rule of
thumb
> where swap =3D 2 X Physical Memory. However, I have read that nowadays
> that rule of thumb is obsolete, and that 256 MB of swap is more than
> enough for most applications. I run KDE, Java development tools
> (Netbeans, HTML editors, image editors, etc.), MySQL, PostgreSQL,
> Apache and Tomcat on my laptop.

I think the excuse today is for a system dump in case of crash. If
you're
not planning on debugging kernel core dumps you don't need room for 'em
:).

At the same time, disk is cheap. One GB for swap from a 40+ GB hard
drive
isn't much. I'm more conservative on my laptop. So conservative, in
fact,
that I seem to have borken swap altogether.

/me investigates...

ciao,

der.hans
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