Newbie's partition problem: 1GB RAM and 353MB swap?

[Jan Kokoska]

Installer is trying to be smart and figures out you don't have much
space for data (in its opinion anyway).

Just override the offered default with whatever you think is reasonable
if you are not happy with this. Half a GB should be fine, the truth is
you don't really want to swap out or your performance goes out of
window. Large swaps I have only found useful for suspending laptops to
disk and there you want to squeeze all apps *plus* some caches so the
system is reasonably responsive after resume. Caches get cut off
automatically until it fits.

None of this is your case with SCSI-based system, thinking about it the
installer is actually pretty smart... I would stop like you, but after a
though would probably let it go on with this.

Just my 2c.

Regards

Jan

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 17:30 -0700, Bob D. wrote:
> As the subject says, I've got 1GB RAM and the installer wants to make a
> 353MB swap partition. Isn't that really small? I thought it was supposed
> to be ~2x the RAM. My test box has 192MB RAM and Ubuntu made a 489MB
> swap partition there.
> 
> FYI, I'm installing onto a 18.3GB SCSI drive. This drive has a 10.7GB
> partition for XP Pro and programs and 7.6GB of free space now that I've
> removed FC2 and deleted all the old partitions.
> 
> As always, thanks all!
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
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