[Preston] Re: Installing Fedora Core 1

[(BPD) Martyn Ashworth]

Just a thought (or two):

Is it program specific for SWAP, the only reason i ask is that i run 
512Mb of RAM and when i occasionally check the /proc/meminfo i have 
around 80Mb of Physical RAM free, yet my swap can be at 50->200Mb. I 
just wondered if certain programmes can insist on swap rather than 
physical as they are not requiring the memory for speedy access (or 
other such trivial matters).

Probably barking in the wrong forest but there we are.

Martyn.


Garry Taylor wrote:

>On Wednesday 24 Mar 2004 11:06 am, Granville Cousins wrote:
>
>>Thanks for your help. What I needed to do was to create a SWAP
>>partition before installing Fedora Core.
>>
>
>This is really strange, I thought that swap space was not vital to the 
>operation of the OS, if you had enough RAM. Therfore you could simply, not 
>have a swap partition.
>
>Prices of todays memory, who really needs swap. Good idea at the time but 
>obsolite now. I would rather have a message say "out of memory" than my 
>system grinding down to a hault.
>
>So should modern installers not test to see if the memory is enough to bypass 
>the swap partition, and leave room for me to install more Open Source 
>goodies.
>
>Gizard
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