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RAM is good, swap is essential

My machine has completely and utterly locked up a couple of times over the past month.  It’s been pretty annoying but I’ve always been in the “damnit, I was busy working” mood when it happens, and never looked beyond that.

It happened again about an hour ago.

This time I bothered to think about why it might have happened.  Two seconds after deciding to think about it I figured that I should have probably configured a swap partition for my Linux install.

I have no idea why I didn’t do this when I installed, but I bothered to do it this time.  5GB should be more than sufficient, and it makes me feel better about my horrendously under-utilized boot disk.

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2 Responses to “RAM is good, swap is essential”

  1. me Says:
    May 3rd, 2007 at 10:59 am

    You want a swap device made of ram. Clearly you do. Its so obvious lewis. Get an IRAM drive, dude. :)

  2. Louis Says:
    October 20th, 2007 at 9:02 pm

    5GB!! Wow. Seriously, mine never uses more than 512MB, but I guess you have a big disk… :)

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