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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:27:37 +0000
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>,
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From: Jonathan Morton <chromi@cyberspace.org>
Subject: Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.
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At 1:51 pm +0000 2/2/2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
>Hi!
>
>> I am asking because I have just ordered a new drive for my Vaio (8.1 gig
>> in a 8.45mm drive!) and I want to install 2.4.x on it.  (I like getting
>
>8.1GB in under centimeter? That's 8.1GB in compactflash slot?

In general, i think the normal reccommendation is to put around double your
physical RAM size as a swapfile.  In practice, I use 256Mb swap on most
(almost all) my machines, which have physical RAM from 28Mb up to 320Mb.
Only the 28Mb machine ever makes substantial use of that space.

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