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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Denham Coote <<a href="mailto:denhamcoote@gmail.com">denhamcoote@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. -- Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow - It merely saps the strength of today. -- ubuntu-za mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-za@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-za</a> </blockquote></div>