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Reword the RAM/swap size rule of thumb,

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to make it a bit less cryptic.
Explicitly note that swap = n * RAM {n >= 2}.

Submitted by:	Jonathan Stewart <stewarjh@email.uc.edu>
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Giorgos Keramidas 2002-02-18 03:30:34 +00:00
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@ -2210,9 +2210,9 @@ Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c
<entry><para>The system's swap space is kept on this partition.
Choosing the right amount of swap space can be a bit of an
art. A good rule of thumb is that you should have two or
three times the amount of RAM as swap space. So if you have
64MB of RAM then you should have between 128MB and 196MB of swap.
art. A good rule of thumb is that your swap
space should be two or three times as much as the
available physical memory (RAM). So if you have
You should also have at least 64MB of swap, so if you have
less than 32MB of RAM in your computer then set the swap
amount to 64MB.</para>