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[James Sumners]

Over a gig is excessive. But if I don't feel like messing with it when
letting the setup tool decide then it gets made to whatever. I
generally only do that with a 120GB+ drive.

On 5/16/06, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
> > Umm, I have gone completely WITHOUT a swap partition before and been
> > just fine. Generally, you want at least as much swap space as you have
> > RAM; but it is recommend to use twice as much swap as RAM. I used to
> > say 128MB is enough (once you have exceeded that amount in RAM), but
> > that was when hard drive space was a premium for me. Now, I use at
> > least as much swap as RAM if not twice that much.
>
> I never have my /swap over a gig.  I don't see any sense in it and have
> never had any problems with that.
>
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> Until later, Geoffrey
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