Memory upgrade and swap partition size

[Kevin D. Clark]

Bill Sconce writes:

> One morning after a sufficient number of cups of coffee it dawned on me what
> was wrong:  that the "2X" rule was fatal for a 384MB machine and my greedy
> use of Firefox tabs.  I took a deep breath, wiped the disk, created a 2GB
> swap file and reinstalled.  It NEVER stalls now -- the first week or so I
> had to keep pinching myself how well the poor thing worked with "enough"
> memory at last.  And how dumb I'd been to ever credit "2X".  An old wives'
> tale...

Suggestion:  you might not have needed to re-install.  If you had
created an extra swapfile with "mkswap" and then utilized it with
"swapon", you could have experimented with a larger amount of
swap-space without having to re-partition/re-install.

Hope this is useful info,

--kevin
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