Re: Swap space not used

Hm, I've got 4 GB RAM and two swaps, 2.17GiB and 2.43GiB, one on each
HDD I'm using.
I'm doing resource-intensive work with my machine.
4 GB RAM are enough for my needs and I never noticed that a swap was
touched.
For my kind of usage Linux (Debian and several other distros) are able
to handle the RAM without fault.

The rule that a swap should be double as large as the RAM is outdated.

Anyway, some people might need much RAM.

Sometime ago I noticed that some (perhaps all, I didn't checked this)
x86_64 kernels on my machine only access 3.8GB from the 4GB RAM on my
machine (no shared memory for the framebuffer), 32-bit PAE kernels are
all ok. I searched the web and found out that other people, having much
more RAM mounted, have this issue with x86_64 kernels too.

The computer has 8GB of RAM, and I have found that the
tendency of web site develpoers, is increased sloppiness, as
too many web site
developers appear to work on the principle that computers have
an
infinite amount of RAM for them to squander.

I don't think so, since there are still a lot of people using 32-bit
Windows installs that can access less than 4GB. If you've got issues
with 8GB RAM when surfing the Internet, I suspect that some script set
limits for the RAM.

When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as
is shown by gparted.

Did you chose this large swap or was it done automatically? My
installs / + /home have around 20 or 30 GB only. Of cause, for audio
productions I have separated, large partitions.

Is your Debian a regular Debian? IOW did you download the image from the
Internet or did you use a DVD from a computer magazine?
At least German computer magazines often have broken versions of distros
as a supplement.

Regards,
Ralf


2 Cents,
Ralf


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