Swap-space

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Mar 29 09:46:16 PST 2005


On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:31:10PM +0200, Erik Wikström wrote:
> My laptop has 768 MB RAM and I think that 1,5 GB swap is a bit much,
> especiall considering that I've only got 40GB on the disk, what would be a
> more appropriate size?

If you want to help us developers, ensure that the swap size is greater
than the RAM size and point dumpdev to your swap partition. This allows
the system to coredump when hitting fatal conditions, which are not
likely, but sometimes unavoidable.

Joerg





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