Re: [SLUG] swap drive, partition or no?

From: Ronald KA4INM Youvan (ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 08:21:35 EDT


> I don't think there's any benefit for more than 2 * memory of swap
> space. There used to be a stiff limitation like this in the 2.2 kernels,
> but I don't know about the 2.4.

   I have 1 gig of memory and no swap (I had 3+ gig. at first
with 2.2.19 kernel) partition, I am trying to use the ram.
(I chose 1 gig so I could fit an entire 700 meg wav file in
a sound editor to speed up things, doesn't seem to help all
that much. (1 gig Athelon)

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