Small comment:
The x2 rule doesn't actually mean anything now,
as far as I know this rule-of-thumb comes from
unices which will not use RAM unless they have
swap to shadow it with.
Of course, in this case, with 32MB of RAM
he could use 128MB of swap.
"Eugene L. Berman" wrote:
>
> Oren Shomron wrote:
> >
> > Ok, it's an Intel Pentium-2 233, 32 megs physical ram and 40 megs swap.
>
> Yes, that's a problem. The swap partition size must be at least
> as twice as physical RAM. And for slow machines like yours, I'd suggest
> at least 128 Mb of swap partition.
> And if you use huge X applications like Netscape, Gnome or KDE,
> it would be a good idea to add more RAM...
>
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