Comment Swap space (Score 1) 176
I've got a PPro 200 with 128 megs ram and 128 megs swap and I've had no problems. The machine is basically my workstation, but there are a few internet/multiuser services running on it (web server with a small rarely used site, FTP server, POP e-mail for 1/2 a dozen people, a couple MUDs). I'm also usually running X with the GNOME desktop, GIMP, Netscape, a 1/2 dozen xterms, and a couple other applications at any given time.
I rarely hit swap unless someone does something drastic on one of the muds (causes a new zone to be loaded is the most common reason).
This machine has been reloaded a lot (ahh the joys of experimenting), and I've tried putting swap partitions on different parts of the drives, varying the size of the partitions, using swap size of 2x ram, and I discovered that for what my box does a second swap partition was useless because it never got used. Also, I was never able to actually notice any difference in performance based on location of the swap partition on the drive.
If I were running a production web server, or an Oracle server than I would worry about it a lot more, but if you're just putting together a machine for your own use and don't plan on doing anything incredibly memory intensive, 128 megs of ram and a 128 meg swap partition should suit your needs just fine.
Although... now that I'm running Seti@Home my memory useage has gone up, but even so I still rarely hit swap.
I rarely hit swap unless someone does something drastic on one of the muds (causes a new zone to be loaded is the most common reason).
This machine has been reloaded a lot (ahh the joys of experimenting), and I've tried putting swap partitions on different parts of the drives, varying the size of the partitions, using swap size of 2x ram, and I discovered that for what my box does a second swap partition was useless because it never got used. Also, I was never able to actually notice any difference in performance based on location of the swap partition on the drive.
If I were running a production web server, or an Oracle server than I would worry about it a lot more, but if you're just putting together a machine for your own use and don't plan on doing anything incredibly memory intensive, 128 megs of ram and a 128 meg swap partition should suit your needs just fine.
Although... now that I'm running Seti@Home my memory useage has gone up, but even so I still rarely hit swap.
