Re: Let's Note + TLJ2.0 (Re: tlug: gratitude)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Ken Harada wrote:

> Hi Daisuke,
> 
> At Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:12:57 +0900, SHUDO Daisuke <dshudo@example.com> wrote:-
> > Gee!
> > 
> > After reading MKEHW disk, you have to insert the
> > installer disk again!
> > Now I proceed to the next step, how can I set swap
> > areas...?
> Have you "fdisk"ed your hard disk?  Sincd fips did not work, you
> are forced to give up Windows on your Let's Note.  Then, before
> you go to the swap area question, you should have been asked to
> edit the partitions.  Make at least one linux native (type 83)
> partition, and one linux swap (type 82) partition.  
> 
> Anyone please recommend the swap size.

For a workstation 32MB should be plenty.  I usually follow this rule:

Workstation: Swap = physical RAM size or 32MB, whichever is larger.
Server: Swap = (2 * physical RAM size) or 64MB, whichever is larger.
Heavily loaded server: 128MB, which is the max size of a swap partition,
at least with 2.0.x kernels.  

I think that the newer 2.1.x kernels which support larger inodes can have
larger swap partitions, but I'm not sure on that.  Chris Sekiya would
probably know for sure, though... Chris?

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