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here are my specs :

HP Pavilion dv6809wm Entertainment Notebook :

AMD Turion 64X2 2.0GHz.

Nvidia Geforce 7150m

4GB DDR2 Ram

320GB Hard Drive

Atheros AR5007 802.11 b/g

how big should i make the swap partition for ubuntu if any at all ?

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older times , rule of the thumb use to be swap is double the real space in mem-stick.

but you seem to got plenty of it, and if you dont see yourself running out of all the ram by doing usual task (and not photo editing/video editing massive files ) then even 4 gb (i.e equal to your ram) will suffice.

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mark@mark-core2:~$ free -k
			 total	   used	   free	 shared	buffers	 cached
Mem:	   3631408	3137960	 493448		  0	 315320	2298740
-/+ buffers/cache:	 523900	3107508
Swap:	   554232	   5024	 549208
mark@mark-core2:~$

You see I have about 550MB set up for swap. It is using a little under 5MB.

Set up something. It doesn't need to be an awful lot. 500MB may be overkill. Or it may be perfect. It depends a lot on your particular install in usage habits (video editing, lots of GIMP stuff, Firefox, all use up memory). It can be good to have a swap around, and there is really no penalty for declaring a half GB of swap.

I say just do it. :yes:

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mark@mark-core2:~$ free -k
			 total	   used	   free	 shared	buffers	 cached
Mem:	   3631408	3137960	 493448		  0	 315320	2298740
-/+ buffers/cache:	 523900	3107508
Swap:	   554232	   5024	 549208
mark@mark-core2:~$

You see I have about 550MB set up for swap. It is using a little under 5MB.

Set up something. It doesn't need to be an awful lot. 500MB may be overkill. Or it may be perfect. It depends a lot on your particular install in usage habits (video editing, lots of GIMP stuff, Firefox, all use up memory). It can be good to have a swap around, and there is really no penalty for declaring a half GB of swap.

I say just do it. :yes:

i may give it a go this week, right now im enjoying the windows 7 beta. :woot:

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