Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

[Rogier Wolff]

Wakko Warner wrote:
> > I've always been trying to convice people that 2x RAM remains a good 
> > rule-of-thumb.
> 
> IMO this is pointless
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        517456     505332      12124     111016      97752     236884
> -/+ buffers/cache:     170696     346760
> Swap:       131048      23216     107832
> 
> Of course for me, I'm not about to waste 1gb of disk space for swap.
> 
> The swap I have is 2 partitions, one on each drive both with a priority of
> 0.  Personally, I like the way it's done on my box.

So you've spent almost $200 for RAM, and refuse to spend $4 for 1Gb of
swap space. Fine with me. 

                        Roger. 

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