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

[David Williamson]

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.

This is another subject of holy wars - but I have a gig of RAM also and
NO swap.  I've never seen a difference ... YMMV.

david williamson