[Tfug] Lies, damned lies, and swap space

Jim March 1.jim.march at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 20:10:16 MST 2007


If you want hibernate to work, you'd best have a shade over 2gig.
Call it 2.1 (or 2048+128) for safety.

Jim

On 7/6/07, Matt Jacob <matt at mattjacob.com> wrote:
> It's time for my laptop to have a clean slate, so I'm wiping the disk
> and reinstalling everything from scratch. My question is this: How
> much space (if any) should I allocate to swap?
>
> I've got 2 gigs of RAM in this thing, so I don't anticipate I'll be
> swapping very frequently. On the other hand, could it possibly hurt to
> allocate at least 1G to swap?
>
> Matt
>
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