From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ichi@ihug.co.nz Subject: Re: RAM and swap partition Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:15:23 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DF5A29B.37AFD2D7@ihug.co.nz> References: <3DF4FBF0@mailandnews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: james miller Cc: linux-newbie james miller wrote: > > Let me pose the RAM question in another way to see if > it can elicit a generic, "rule-of-thumb" response I'm happy to give you my personal "rule-of-thumb", but that's all it is. It's not an absolute truth. Every system gets at least 16mb of total memory. So, a system with 4mb RAM gets 12mb swap. Light X installations with slim wm (*not* KDE or Gnome) get at least 32mb total memory. So, a system with 12mb RAM gets 24mb swap. Heavy X installations need RAM. Lots of RAM. Swap is less relevant on such systems. Cheers, Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs