fix-this! Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 if i have 3gb of ram in my laptop how big should i make the swap partition in linux ? what is the swap good for anyways ? the partition you format in etx3 is what you will be using anyways, right ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budious Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 if i have 3gb of ram in my laptop how big should i make the swap partition in linux ? what is the swap good for anyways ? the partition you format in etx3 is what you will be using anyways, right ? I'm of the opinion that you'll probably never need more than 512MB swap in Linux for most applications. If you install something like Oracle, then it will have a higher minimum swap requirement, but you can always create a swap file elsewhere on the file system that can be mounted as swap volume. The swap partition is not ext3 formatted. It will be a separate partition from the filesystem. However, Linux does support a swap file method similar to the one used by windows, but it's recommended only when additional swap is required. http://www.linux.com/feature/113956 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I agree. With 3 Gb of ram, chances are you're unlikely to often run out and require a massive swap partition. 512Mb should be ample as a kind of "safety net", unless you often open a load of photos in Gimp, for example, which can easily eat up ram. If you're not short of disk space, then have a 1Gb swap instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Linux -always- do a better memory amangement according to RedHat, you should createa little one. I got 8gb or ram and my swap is beeing used sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rson451 Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 If you ever want to suspend to disk, you must have at least as much swap space as memory. May want to keep that in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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