In message <pan.2006.04.28.01.53.37.657146@IS_FAKE.COM>, SteveSch
<THISEMAIL@IS_FAKE.COM> writes
>On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:23:10 +0100, Jeremy Boden wrote:
>
>>If you have a decent amount of memory and run single
>> user then you don't need a swap partition - although you could create a
>> small one if you like.
>
>Just curious. I am just wondering what you would consider a decent amount
>of memory?
>
>I ran a few tests with diff amounts of memory, not diff swap.
>
>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=377255
>
>In that thread someone was good enough to post a couple of links for more
>info. One deals with swap.
>
>http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/softwar...rnel/swap.html
>
>I was playing with one of the newer Debian net install cds and I let it
>partition to see what it'd do. It set my swap at approx 2.7 Gigs.
>
Obviously "Decent amount of memory" depends on what you are doing. If I
wanted to edit video then probably I would need huge amounts - but for
word processing and moderate amounts of image processing then 512MBytes
is probably ample (I only have 384M).

--
Jeremy Boden