optimal(?) layout of fedora 19 with one SSD drive and one regular HD?

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Wed Dec 4 23:29:40 UTC 2013


On 12/04/2013 03:21 PM, Tim wrote:
> It's probably the reasoning behind make swap twice as big as RAM.  It
> should leave enough room for RAM to fit into swap, and the wiggle room
> for the OS to tidy up swap as it hibernates things.

Sorry, but I have to inform you that you're putting the cart before the 
horse.  The rule of thumb I mentioned about making swap twice the size 
of RAM goes back to the early days of MS-DOS, long before there were 
such things as hibernate or sleep for computers.


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