diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml index e6782f0cd2..8796eb97b9 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml @@ -2210,9 +2210,9 @@ Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c 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.