Default FC2 Swap Space

[James McKenzie]

Mike:

I would recommend, with 128MB of ram, making your swap at least 256MB.  
I would more lean towards 512MB if you are running X.  Actually, I would 
highly recommend against running X if you have less than 256MB of ram 
due to the requirements for X and most X based programs.

James McKenzie

Mike Witt wrote:

>My newly installed FC2 systems is running a lot slower than
>I expected. I chose the "default" partitioning scheme suggested
>during installation. And fdisk now reports this as:
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>># fdisk -l
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>>Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41174138880 bytes
>>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5005 cylinders
>>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>/dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
>>/dev/hda2              14        4981    39905460   83  Linux
>>/dev/hda3            4982        5005      192780   82  Linux swap
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>Isn't that around 188 Meg of swap space? My system has 128 Meg of memory,
>and in the past I seem to remember allocation about four times as much
>swap space as I had physical memory, with better results.
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>Am I nuts? Does swap space only need to be the size of physical memory?
>I don't really understand the issues here. Advice?
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>-Mike
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