[ubuntu-za] Swap size

[Vijay Makanjee]

Mine appears to be set at 2.2gb. I have only 1gb of RAM. (Damn, should 
have done the upgrade when I got the laptop.)
I think the swap was set automatically when I installed ubuntu.

Vijay Makanjee
Ergo | P O Box 19801 | Tecoma 5214 | South Africa
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vijay at ergo dot co dot za


David Bodmer wrote:
> If you have over 2gb ram its almost not necessary to have swap space, 
> Ubuntu doesn't need much more than a few hundred mb at peak usage, 
> unless ur doing 3d animation or something really demanding.
> 
> I never use swap space, and have never encountered a problem.
> 
> David Bodmer
> 
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Denham Coote <denhamcoote at gmail.com 
> <mailto:denhamcoote at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi everyone
> 
>     In the past, I've often seen it suggested that one should use 1.5x
>     system RAM as the size of the swap partition.  This was also when
>     TVs were black and white and mullets were cool.
> 
>     Anyway, I have 4gb, with an equally sized swap partition.  Is this
>     necessary?  As I type this, I'm using 0 bytes. 0.0% of my swap.
> 
>     What are you folks using?
> 
>     Denham.
> 
> 
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