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I have a question about what happens when you install more RAM into a machine already running Linux. How does something like this affect the swap partition? Do you have to expand it to mirror the inscrease in memory? One of the first thing I read about the swap partion is that is should be twice the memory size.
nothing need be done to linux.
with more ram, there might be less swapping
swap = double ram is an older thumb rule... But, if u have, e.g., 1GB ram, who needs swap?
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