Subj : LINUX the Cross Roads
To   : Mbr
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Thu Jan 06 2005 12:49 pm

  Re: LINUX the Cross Roads
  By: Mbr to Spaceman Spiff on Thu Jan 06 2005 09:54:00

 > yeah linux doesn't do it the same way.. but it uses a swap partition called 
 > Swap Drive. and it's usually around doubled the size of the phyiscal ram. if
 > you have 128meg of ram the swawp is usually 256ish

That's not entirely accurate.

On an SVR4 system you must have swap at least equal in size to your RAM.  
Under Linux you can have less or more, to taste.  I usually match the size 
in RAM, except i) if RAM is very small, I use more swap, and ii) if RAM is 
very large I use less swap.  

Right now, I have 2x 128 meg swap partitions and 512 meg RAM.

For more info, look at

	http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-4.html#SwapSize
	http://www.linux.com/guides/sag/swap-allocation.shtml




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