RAM increase + swap

Richard Tobin richard at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Wed Aug 20 08:46:34 PDT 2003


> If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB
> system, don't I need to increase the /swap partition size?

No.  In fact you will need less swap space now.

The 2xRAM rule-of-thumb makes very little sense.

-- Richard


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