[ubuntu-za] Swap size

[Denham Coote]

Ah, yes, I forgot about this.  Seems I will need it afterall!

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Chris Mulder <chris.mulder at gmail.com>wrote:

> If you are using a laptop, you'll need to have swap space equal to
> your physical ram for suspend to disk/hibernate to work. If it's a
> desktop, I'd keep a small swap partition around for just in case, but
> overall a piece of silicon is always faster than a hard disk platter
> :D ...
>
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:15 PM, David Bodmer <david.bodmer at gmail.com>
> 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>
> 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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