> Armin Wegner wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've got 128 megs ram. Which size should I choose for the swap partition? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Armin > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > hi, > the usual recommendation is to have the swap at 1.5 times your memory, > but at 128MB you shouldn't ever need that much. > Unless you are running an app that might need loads of swap (eg mathcad) > then 64 MB is a number that is often bandied around in answer to this > question. > Essentially you dont want to run out of memory, but also, you dont want > to use up too much disk space. > > > (for your info, in my 40 MB RAM machine I have 50 MB swap, for your > perspective. I have never used more than half of it (and that was with > about 6 netscapes, X, and an mp3 encoder), although I have never run > staroffice and compiled my kernel at the same time etc etc) > > > frankie > > -- > Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is > good > for dandruff. > > --Peter de Vries >
If you have enough disk space then I believe you should use 64M. My machine has 40M and there were times that 50M swap seems to be too less. I don't know if that was netscape or the fact that I had many xterms and other clients running under X. I posted about it to the list and got various answers, ranging from people saying that they are doing things similar to what I do but still need considerably less swap to people that claimed that they need a large swap area. Although currently free shows that 50M swap area is plenty, I am still not convinced that debian should not recommend setting a large swap area (128M ?) for people who can spare that much disk area.
