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

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Sun Oct 3 01:14:06 UTC 2004


On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 05:30:55PM -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.

353MB swap is plenty for your system; don't worry about it.

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 - mdz




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