multiboot

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Tue Jun 2 14:41:01 UTC 2009


Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com wrote:


> 1) Shouldn't the swap size be twice the memory, or some such multiple?

Generally, for very large amounts of memory (20GB in the example), it's not 
necessary - except for hibernation, and perhaps not even then.

> And, I don't think the swap can be too big.

True.

> 2) Aren't swap files the recommended approach these days?

afaik, they still can't be used for hibernation.

-- 
derek






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