Re: Swap partition size for a 4GB RAM system?

linuxlover992000@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
It has a 32-bit CPU (3GHz P4 with HyperThreading) and 4GB RAM.

Does it make sense at all to have a swap partition when I have so much
RAM?

Sure. When this machine had 4 GBytes Ram, I allocated 8 GBytes swap space,
and it used some of it. 2 GBytes would have been enough, though. Depends on
your use of virtual memory space. Now that it has 8 GBytes RAM, it never
pages, so perhaps I do not need it anymore. But I do not do major graphics
work (with the GIMP, for example) with multiple layer drawings, and so on.

I am intending use it for a VMWare workstation, using Ubuntu 6.0.6 as
the host OS.

Thanks!
Lynn



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