Originally posted here by fyrewall
well as HT said linux doesnt have pagefile.sys so you need to create a partition for virtual memory.... create your main partition for linux to install on and then create a linux swap partition ( i only make it about 200mb) but HT reckons twice the size of the amount of ram you have .. so if you have 512mb ram make your swap partition a gig!!??
Hey Hey,

That's not my reckoning.. that's standard practice That's what they teach in all linux courses. You wouldn't want less swap then ram, because if you're RAM was full and you needed to swap it all out, you wouldn't have room.. .That's why doubling the RAM for swap is the standard.

Peace,
HT