[slackintosh-users] Re: Partitioning for Slackintosh12.0

  • From: "Marco Bonetti" <marco.bonetti@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:31:04 +0200

On 7/23/07, Adrian Ulrich <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The 'ram * 1.5 = swap' rule is IMO very outdated. It is okay for PCs with less 
than 512Mb
ram.

Today i'd use '1Gb - RAM = SWAP'
totally agree, however keep in mind that you'll need at least as much
swap as your ram if you want to do suspend to disk. I have 640MB of
ram and 1GB of swap (yes, it's really a lot, but it comes very handy
when testing out experimental kernels :-P )

ciao

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