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

[Bob D.]

Jan, Matt, and Nick....thanks to you all for your replies! I appreciate
the fact that on this list the "old hands" are being patient with noobs
like me.

BR,

Bob

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 08:24 -0400, Nick Mirkovich wrote:
>  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
> > 
> 
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