Hm, I've got 4 GB RAM and two swaps, 2.17GiB and 2.43GiB, one on each HDD I'm using. I'm doing resource-intensive work with my machine. 4 GB RAM are enough for my needs and I never noticed that a swap was touched. For my kind of usage Linux (Debian and several other distros) are able to handle the RAM without fault.
The rule that a swap should be double as large as the RAM is outdated. Anyway, some people might need much RAM. Sometime ago I noticed that some (perhaps all, I didn't checked this) x86_64 kernels on my machine only access 3.8GB from the 4GB RAM on my machine (no shared memory for the framebuffer), 32-bit PAE kernels are all ok. I searched the web and found out that other people, having much more RAM mounted, have this issue with x86_64 kernels too. > The computer has 8GB of RAM, and I have found that the > tendency of web site develpoers, is increased sloppiness, as > too many web site > developers appear to work on the principle that computers have > an > infinite amount of RAM for them to squander. I don't think so, since there are still a lot of people using 32-bit Windows installs that can access less than 4GB. If you've got issues with 8GB RAM when surfing the Internet, I suspect that some script set limits for the RAM. > When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as > is shown by gparted. Did you chose this large swap or was it done automatically? My installs / + /home have around 20 or 30 GB only. Of cause, for audio productions I have separated, large partitions. Is your Debian a regular Debian? IOW did you download the image from the Internet or did you use a DVD from a computer magazine? At least German computer magazines often have broken versions of distros as a supplement. Regards, Ralf 2 Cents, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336087328.5833.57.camel@precise
