Swap-space

[Eduardo Tongson]

> my laptop soon. An in section 6.2 it says that the swap-partition should be
> twice the size of the RAM and goes on with examples. However I have to
> question the correctness of this, does it still hold true that the swap
> should be twice the RAM even with the size of RAM that most computers have
> today?

There's no hard rule for swap space, the 2x ram is mainly a "residue"
of legacy system installations.

> 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?

512mb ought to be enough for desktop applications

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                                                    Eduardo Tongson     
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