Installing Ubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

Pär Lidén wrote:

> I have 1 gig ram, and 2 gigs swap, but honestly, that 
> swap space is quite unneccesary, even if I have alot of programs loaded at 
> the same time, my memory usage has neve been above 600 megs. 

I currently have 1.3GB in use (I cheated and started VirtualBox running
Windows XP - that raised it 300M!).  That's while running two database
servers (MySQL & PostGres), Apache, Tomcat, Zope/Plone, NX, and numerous
other servers.  I have 3GB allocated for the swap partition, but my /tmp is
on a TMPFS filesystem - which uses a GB of that.

> So I've never 
> actually have had any real use for my swap. Usually they recommend swap
> space twice as big as ram, but I would say that if you total swap + ram =
> ~ 1.2 gigs, that's enough, say 512 megs ram, 700 megs swap, 1 gig ram, 256
> megs swap. Like that. But other people might recommend other things.

If you run a VM - either VMWare or VirtualBox, the memory of the VM is taken
permanently out of your pool, so you need to consider that, but otherwise
I'd say you're probably right on.

> I say you'd want at least 4 gig for the / partition (probably 5 or 6) to
> give room for temporary files, log files, and future programs you might
> wish to install. That leaves around around 4 gigs for /home. How much ram
> do you have?

-- 
derek