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I'm installing Slackware on my new laptop which has 2gb of ram. According to the old rule of swap = 2x ram, that would mean I should have a 4gb ...
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- 08-04-2005 #1Just Joined!
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Max swap partition size?
I'm installing Slackware on my new laptop which has 2gb of ram. According to the old rule of swap = 2x ram, that would mean I should have a 4gb swap partition, but I have read that this is more than would ever be used and is just wasting space on my hard drive. Should I go with the 4gb or just 1 or 2gb? Thanks!
- 08-04-2005 #2Linux Engineer
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You shouldn't need any with 2GB of RAM.
- 08-04-2005 #3Just Joined!
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so I could just skip the whole swap partition completely? ok thanks I'll give that a shot.
- 08-04-2005 #4Linux Engineer
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You should use swap if it was me id use 512Mb.
- 08-04-2005 #5Linux Guru
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If you're not using it as a SQL server you should be fine. Though I think the maximum recommended is 512MB, which I agree with going with. You'll probably never even scrape it, just nice to have for some multimedia operations.
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