[Ubuntu-BD] Creating a 4 GB swap partition

2010-07-17 Thread Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor
Hello, Recently installed opensuse but made a mistake while installation. I've installed without any swap partition. So the system is sluggish. Went to google and found out this command will create a 512 MB file and use it as a swap: dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1k count=524288 && mkswap /s

Re: [Ubuntu-BD] Creating a 4 GB swap partition

2010-07-17 Thread shiplu
You dont need swap partition. Leave it. 2GB is enough for a linux distro to run smoothly. I dont use swap partition for any of my linux installation. This is because all of them has enough amount of physical memory. Swap partition was used in old days, when physical memory was low. Shiplu Moka

Re: [Ubuntu-BD] Creating a 4 GB swap partition

2010-07-17 Thread Nasimul Haque
As Shiplu mentioned, you do not really need swap if you have that much of physical memory. However, the change was needed in the count= parameter. Calculate 4GB in bytes and replace that number in count= parameter. Again, this 4GB will be a waste of memory. Also creating swapfile on the same parti

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Re: [Ubuntu-BD] Creating a 4 GB swap partition

2010-07-17 Thread Lenin
Well at times swaps come into play. I have a habit of using more than on browsers at a time. And Firefox ate 2GB of my 2.5GB memory at one time. :) With highly resource hungry applications you might require to have more memory even if you would have a lot of Ram. But before increasing you should in