Hi! Comparing Debian with other distros, using 2 GB of RAM and a disk with 1.00 TB, we have this (using the default partition layout of the installers, full disk):
Debian: 7.0 GB / 6.2 GB swap 1.1 TB /home Mandriva One 2010 Spring: 12 GB / 3.8 GB swap 1008 GB /home Fedora 13: 500 MB /boot Inside LVM: 50 GB / 969.56 GB /home 3.93 GB swap CentOS 5.5 101 MB / Inside LVM: 1019.9 GB / 3.93 GB swap openSUSE 11.3 and openSUSE 11.4 Milestone 2 of 6 - Build 0754: 2.01 GB swap 20 GB / 1001.99 GB /home The maximum swap space created by the other distros is about twice the size of RAM (openSUSE is using the same size of RAM), while Debian is using three times. Debian is also the distro that creates the smallest root partition. I know that they are different distros, with different priorities, objectives, etc, but it's just to show that maybe 300% the size of RAM is too much for contemporaneous machines. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101005185152.ga32...@orthrus
