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

[Nick Mirkovich]

 Two things - As mentioned in a later post, it's the installer's
intelligence in dealing with the space it has to work with and I would
agree to using it's choices.
 Secondly, that old rule is just that, an old rule. It's a carry over
from the past when systems had relatively little RAM and relied on
swapping data in and out of memory.
 Realistically, with 1 GB of RAM, you'll probably never touch your swap
partition but it does have to present.
 In our Unix boxes we usually never have more than 2 GB of swap. This
typically is about 5 to 10 percent of total RAM.

Nick



On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 20:30, 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
>