Swap partition question.

Mr_Floppy4 · 10-14-2002, 09:01 PM

Since I have 512 RAM will i need the swap file?

Mr_Floppy4

MasterC · 10-14-2002, 09:36 PM

Hello and welcome to LQ! If you would have searched down a bit, not even 24 hours ago I wrote a How To on this

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=32781

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trickykid · 10-14-2002, 10:06 PM

And to answer your question right off the bat.. yes, its in your best interest to create a swap partition.

With 512 MB of RAM, you could get away with just creating a 100 MB swap. That's all I use for my desktop Linux boxes and its never touched. Even my FTP, SSH and NFS server running with only 64 megs of RAM hasn't touched its 100 MB swap as of yet.

MasterC · 10-14-2002, 10:10 PM

Wow, actually I didn't know that it was that good. Thanks for including that last line Drew, that's good to know

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trickykid · 10-14-2002, 10:15 PM

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Originally posted by MasterC
Wow, actually I didn't know that it was that good. Thanks for including that last line Drew, that's good to know

Hehe.. and its been running happily for 112 days now with no problems. I'm proud of it. Would have been another 40 days tacked on to that but I had to replace the PSU....