[ILUG] Ram swap

[Brian Foster]

 I'm currently 3:1 (swap:RAM).  Why 3:1?

 Because I've followed the c.2:1 advice since the early 80's
 (on Unix), and as a matter of habit, set aside that much
 space unless I don't have that much space.  I started with
 one HDD, and 512MiB RAM, so set aside 1GiB swap.  Then I
 got a second HDD, on which I installed a different distro,
 upgraded memory to 1GiB, so set aside 2GiB swap.  Both swap
 areas are configured/available, so I have 1+2=3:1 swap:RAM.

 And how much of that space am I actually using?  At last
 check, c.200KiB, which is actually more than usual (looks
 like I've got a bloated FireFox  ;-\  ).  Am I short of
 space on either HDD?  No.  I can afford to set aside that
 much.  It's not an issue.

cheers!
	-blf-
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