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Re: Partitions
* On Thu Jan 24, 2002 15:25:49 +0000, Richard Watson wrote:
> Never doing *much* but maybe often doing *something*. The last I heard
> was that in 2.4 kernels you should have twice as much swap as RAM
> because that's what the kernel expects. You may be able to get away
> with less but there are no guarantees. Things may have changed in
> recent kernels but in early 2.4 there was an assumption that this much
> swap would be present and no checking to see if it wasn't. I'm not a
> kernel hacker - this is all AFAIK :-)
I think that swap = 2 * ram is no longer necessary or even desired for
newer 2.4 kernels.
- Tal
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