On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 12:57:02 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To: Casey Bralla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: Do I need a bigger swap partition?
> Resent-Date: 28 Mar 1998 17:55:08 -0000
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> On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Casey Bralla wrote:
> >I build RH 5 with a 32 MByte swap partition (doiuble my current 16
> >MBytes of RAM). I plan to increase my RAM to 64 MBytes. Will I need
> >to repartition my disk to increase the swap space to 64 MBytes? (or
> >132 MBytes?)
>
> Only if you want to. There is no technical requirement that your
> swap space be larger than your physical memory.
yes, but if you run a machine with high memory req's that you don't reboot
often (like a server) it's a good idea, because otherwise the machine
can't defragment its memory, which affects performance, etcetc
Vinnie
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