How much swap on laptop?

[Mark Haney]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I've just got a Dell laptop with 2GB RAM. 2*2.5=5GB of swap? This
> seems like a bit much, but I'd like some opinions on the matter. Also,
> I've heard that the swap should be as close to the center of the disk
> as possible- does that mean that I should use hda1 as swap? Opinions
> welcome. Thanks.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 

I have 1GB RAM on my Compaq R4000 and my swap is only about 500MB.
Unless I'm doing some serious compiling on it, I never see it swap out.
 I guess it's all in how you plan on using it.



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Mark Haney
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