Re: Swap-space

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Wikström wrote:

> Hi
> I'm reading through the Handbook since I'm planning to install DragonFly on
> my laptop soon. An in section 6.2 it says that the swap-partition should be
> twice the size of the RAM and goes on with examples. However I have to
> question the correctness of this, does it still hold true that the swap
> should be twice the RAM even with the size of RAM that most computers have
> today?
>
> My laptop has 768 MB RAM and I think that 1,5 GB swap is a bit much,
> especiall considering that I've only got 40GB on the disk, what would be a
> more appropriate size?
>
> --
> Erik Wikström

It is quite rare to need it.  It is quite cheap to allocate it.

I just sliced a pair of 120GB in half, put a 1GB swap in
each slice.  Box has 512 MB of RAM, expects 1 GB.

Cheap insurance..... and faster swapping, also.

Bill Hacker