On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 09:37:48AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 05:57:05PM +0200, Brendon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | | > ah, that's good to hear. one question though: how large should the swap | > partition be.. ? i usually use one that is slightly larger than my RAM but | > with only 16 to begin with i'd think i'd need about 50mb swap. | | Size swap to tasks. My rule of thumb is 1-2x RAM, though in practice, I | usually allocate 3x RAM on a new machine on the basis that I might | upgrade memory, and it's a PITA to allocate more swap (at least as a | partition), so this gives some built-in expandability.
I have a 486 with 8MB RAM and I allocated 32MB swap. It runs fine (basically just ipmasq at the moment), but I'm looking into making it a diskless (X)term instead. | For IP filter and NAT, you won't need much swap. Running a Squid proxy, | say, will benefit from more memory, which is bloody cheap at the moment, | and still going down, though old-style strips may be harder to find or | higher in price. New memory (SDRAM) is rather cheap. I just saw a 256MB DIMM for $80 at a store. OTOH old memory (Fast Page Mode or EDO) is ~$80 for a 32MB SIMM, unfortunately. There is a local store that deals with used parts that has some old Pentiums (some with 32MB RAM) for $100 (case, mobo, cpu, hd, NIC). -D
