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My Swap Partition is 510 Mb though.... i chose automatic partitioning when i installed Red Hat, and I know that swap is determined by my RAM, for example: 256 Mb RAM, Swap will be 512 Mb.....
Originally posted by jt1020 My Swap Partition is 510 Mb though.... i chose automatic partitioning when i installed Red Hat, and I know that swap is determined by my RAM, for example: 256 Mb RAM, Swap will be 512 Mb.....
BTW, I used system monitor to check my RAM
By default most distros if you let them auto partition your drive for installation they will double your ram, but its not always necessary to double. I have anywhere between 128 to 512 in all my machines and I always create a 100 to 125 meg swap file which is hardly ever used. So depending on your uses, its rare you'll ever need to have a swap double the size of your ram.
Originally posted by trickykid By default most distros if you let them auto partition your drive for installation they will double your ram, but its not always necessary to double. I have anywhere between 128 to 512 in all my machines and I always create a 100 to 125 meg swap file which is hardly ever used. So depending on your uses, its rare you'll ever need to have a swap double the size of your ram.
ok, thnx for d info , but why is it that when i check system monitor my total RAM in Linux is 249 Mb only??, I have 256 Mb of RAM.....
Oh that, I can't remember what the term is for it but most all OS's will report less RAM that what you really have. Its something along the lines of how it reserves some of the RAM for other purposes. Like your hard drive space, after a format of a filesystem, it will be less due to the inodes and information on some of the blocks on the drive itself.
Someone should come along and mention what the exact term is called.
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, but why is it that when i check system monitor my total RAM in Linux is 249 Mb only??, I have 256 Mb of RAM.....
