On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 05:24, Petro wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 04:45:12PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > > Benjamin Fritzsche, 2002-Sep-20 22:27 +0200: > > > On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 15:11, Luis Castillo wrote: > > I 2nd that. My laptop has 256MB and I reduced the swap to 128MB from > > My Desktop has 256MB with 512MB swap which I'll be reducing soon to > > 128MB or less since I never see it use more that 50-60MB. > > Actually, as cheap as disk is these days, I'd leave it alone for the > following reasons: > > (1) It's cheap insurance against a runaway process. > (2) You stand a greater chance of messing something up by making the > the change than you do if you just leave it alone, which is > kinda the same thing as saying: > (3) Never f*** with a working system unless you have to.
theres definitely lots of truth in that !! (never touvh a running system ;-)) And I just increased my swapspace because I´ve just rebuild my kernel with swsusp and that needs the room if you suspend while a few things are running (or sleeping to talk in processes). tred it before and it worked perfectly then. greets benny
