Craig Thomas wrote:
Thank you. After reading chapter 7, I think I don't need more swap space. Below is the output of free when running (but hardly using) all the apps I generally run at once:
total used free shared buffers
cached Mem: 385032 379860 5172 0 11840 132144 -/+ buffers/cache: 235876 149156 Swap: 514072 11848 502224
This means I am using very little of my swap space and therefore I don't need more. Is this right or am I off base?
Swap = 2X installed RAM is an anachronism dating back to when memory cost $50US or more per megabyte and only servers routinely had more than 16 megabytes. Ordinary workstation users won't often find very much of the total available in use. My KDE box up 53 days with 128M of installed RAM currently shows 57396 of 522072 total swap in use.