Well, I use 64 at home and I ran a heavy system w/ no problems. X minimum is 16, 48 is prolly enough. Although if you can afford it, get as much as you can.
On 11-Nov-98 Eric House wrote: > I need to decide whether to upgrade my Debian laptop to 48 or 80 > meg (from the current 16). > > Is there any way to log how much swap is currently getting used during > the activities I run all the time? > > Any other advice on how much is enough? This machine is for personal > use (e.g. Pilot software development) and will never be a server.