new memory = more swap?

[fred smith]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 09:44:06AM -0500, Craig Thomas wrote:
> I have 256MB ram and a 502MB swap, and want to increase to 384MB ram, [i
> know, i know it's an old machine].  I've read in the RH manual and else
> where that double the amount of ram is "right".  If I want more swap but
> don't have any unpartitioned space left, what are my options?  (I do,
> however, have lots of free space on my drive).

In theory, yes, you ought to increase swap. IN practice, though, for
machines that just get light use (like most desktop or home systems)
it shouldn't matter. I've never gone even halfway into the swap on
this machine from which I'm mailing this. And at work, i've got a
RHEL WS 2.1 box with a gig of RAM that started out at 512, so it has
a one-gig swap space. It never but never uses more than a hundred megs 
of swap, so I've not bothered to dedicate more space to it.

Howeveer, if you feel compelled to dedicate the disk space, you can
allocate some space in a file and use that as swap (if you don't have
more unused partition space on the drive to use). Check out the man
pages for 'mkswap' and 'swapon, which show you how to do it.


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