> You could start with 256MB swap space and add swap partitions as needed. > However, keep in mind that modern hard drives have about twice the > performance on the outer cylinders than the inner cylinders, so try to > position swap space near the beginning of the drive for better swapping > performance. Swap should also be close to often used filesystems. Best > yet, is put swap on its own drive. Not really a good idea for the vast majority of systems these days, which tend have plenty of RAM for the load upon them and thus swap rarely. Think about it, once you're swapping, you've already lost the game of performance, so why waste the speedy outer cylinders on swap? Its going to be better for overall system performance to use the outer cylinders for your filesystem, and use the slow inner cylinders for swap. On the typical 512mb+ RAM desktop systems these days, even with as bloaty as GNOME/KDE can be, you're not going to be swapping enough to warrant wasting your outer cylinders on swap. If your system really is swapping hard enough to warrant putting swap on the outer cylinders, meaning a vast majority of your disk IO bandwidth on a given disk is dominated by swapping traffic, you really ought to be buying more RAM anyway. Its so cheap after all! <note: some sarcasm> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list