To swap or not to swap that is the question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

The old rule of thumb was 3 X memory. But as Chris mentioned, each use is 
different. For normal personal use, 128MB to 256MB should be sufficient. 
(Linux used to have a 128MB limit). For a home desktop, you might want to 
keep multiple desktops, Netscape, your email program, OpenOffice, a few 
shells and other things resident as well as the normal number of daemons. 
If you have a lot of memory, then you don't need that much swap. 

In any case, I asked the question to get some good answers to add to what I 
already know. 
On 7 Oct 2002 at 16:09, billhorne at attbi.com wrote:
> 
> I'd like to get a figure for lower end desktop systems, running 
> 32, 64, or 128MB of RAM.

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