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- > > This would give me a 420Mb linux drive and a 210Mb swapdrive.
- > >
- >
- > 210Mb swap is silly. As a rule, swap should be approx 2 or 3 times your
- > RAM size. Also, I think that the swap and linux root partition should be
- > on the same drive.
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- I don't know how well this applies to ARM as opposed to x86 linux (I
- can't get ARM Linux running on my A3000s (ARM3) since the watford
- A3000 IDE podules aren't supported, at the last check)
- but having the swap and the root partitions on seperate drives can
- actually increase performance, since there is no clash between
- accesses to the drive. Having the swap and root partitions seperate
- shouldn't cause any particular problems, unless they are very strange
- ARM-specific ones.
- I agree that 210Mb swap is *extremely* excessive, especially since I
- think there is still a kernel limit on the size of each
- swap-file/partiton that will be used.
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