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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, tom wrote: > >> Terry Hill wrote: >>> >>> Eg: >>> Enough Ram to make a swap file redundant - how much do you need? >> You can never (in a modern system) have enough ram to truly make sawp >> redundant. > > <panto> Oh yes you can ... :) </panto> Mem: 1035456k total, 634060k used, 401396k free, 49916k buffers Swap: 1949688k total, 0k used, 1949688k free, 269456k cached Last 20 hours seems I have enough. Now if I re-enable a few of the Iceweasel plug-ins I've disabled..... If you want to use hibernate you probably want swap bigger than RAM, similarly for tools like lkcd. So I think they'll be a case for reasonably sized primary swap partition (unless you are doing real time or near real time - like urm Gordon and his telephones) on both laptops and servers. Not so sure about desktops. When I rebuilt my home Desktop box this week I stuck swap in an LVM volume on the software mirrored pair, but that is mostly because I can rather than because I couldn't decide how much swap I wanted ;) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html