[TriLUG] FW: Is it just me, or...

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 17:03, Justin Johnson wrote:

> I'm headed to Intrex shortly to see if the 128MB PC133 SODIMM will work in
> my machine.
> If so, I'll be getting two of those :-) 

Definitely make sure you laptop will support it.  My Vaio only has
one SO-DIMM holder, so 2 wouldn't work for me.  Perhaps newer laptops
are better in this respect.

> So what does that do to my swap
> space? Anything? In windows there is a 'optimal' swap file size that is =
> pysical mem + 11MB (Don't ask me). Any such concern with linux? I used the
> 'auto' partition feature of the install which gave me a swap file of
> 243(ish)MB (5% of 4GB drive). Good enough?

I've heard there used to be a "bug" (for want of a better word)
such that you needed twice the amount of physical ram for swap.
I think that's been fixed.  On my laptop I have 192MB of RAM
and 2x that of swap and it works pretty well.  (On my desktop
I have 768MB of ram and 2x that of swap and I never run out of 
memory! :-)

Tanner
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