reassign 597087 partman-auto thanks Quoting Nelson A. de Oliveira (nao...@debian.org): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > Hi! > > Sorry if it's already known or already reported, but trying to make a > install (with 20100916-10:40 daily-image of kfreebsd-amd64) on a disk > with 166 GB of free space, using the guided partitioner (selected the > option to split /home only), I had these partitions created: > > 7.0 GB / > 5.9 GB swap > 153.2 GB /home > > The machine has 2 GB of RAM (just in case the RAM size is used to > calculate the swap space size). > > Isn't 5.9 GB of swap too much? It's 3 times the size of the RAM and almost > the same size of / > Also, isn't 7.0 GB for / too little?
With current partman-auto, that would be 10GB, which is the maximum
size give for / in partman-auto "home" recipe. Any desktop system
(which is often what the "home" recipe is chosen for) fits in this.
The swap size is maximized to 3 times the system RAM, which is
apparently what you got.
I think one can read about everything...and the contrary...about the
optimal swap size.
Indeed, 3 times the memory size seems too big, particularly with large
amounts of RAM ("large" varies over time!).
Good pointers welcomed to eventually adapt this...
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