On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:38:16AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > For example, if you decide to put /tmp in a ramdisk, you may want to > allocate a swap partition that's much larger than your RAM as backup > in case somebody needs *lots* of space in /tmp.
+1 for the /tmp example. > My personal rule of thumb is, "Start with twice your RAM and adjust > from there depending on experience." How about use a swapfile? Given the large RAM today, allocate dozens gigabytes of swap partition that rarely used seems a waste. Besides, it is easier to change the size of a swapfile than size of a swap partition. -- Chen Wei -- 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/20140203115044.GN25217@localhost
