Swap faq announce

[JanC]

On 5/15/05, Sam Tygier <samtygier at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> also no answer yet to the question, i turn off swap on my laptop, will i get more batter life?
> i have 768mb of ram, so i dont really need swap do i?
> 
> is there a recomendation that the swap partition should be the first partition, or last or
> something like that, because its the faster bit of the disk?
> 
> are there special cases if i have very large or very small amounts of ram?
> if i had 4 or 8 GB of ram should i still follow the between n and 2*n Mb recomendation?
> if i had only 16 or 32mb, would a large enough swap let me run gnome or kde?

This might be interesting to read:
<http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/linux-kernel/swap.html>

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JanC