When your Linux server starts feeling sluggish, you might benefit from looking at your swap space and gauging whether it’s adequately sized for your system’s workload. Fortunately, Linux has some ...

I'm going to get a 100GB hard drive Saturday and I was thinking of dividing it up so I could put multiple versions of linux on it. I want to put just one swap file on the front of the drive and let ...

When it comes to system administration, one of the earliest decisions to be made is how to configure swap space. Many readers already are thinking they know what to do: throw in as much RAM as you can ...

Yeah, I know, Linux pages, but they still call it a SWAP partition.<BR><BR>I've got a system with a 16GB CF as the system drive (actually, the ONLY drive), and 4GB (I thought I had 1GB sticks - they ...

Linux is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, there’s so much you can configure. On the other hand, there’s so much you can configure. It is sometimes hard to know just what you should do to get the ...