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Astigmatism
August 8th, 2010, 10:45 AM
Hi,

i am very much new user of ubuntu and hardly know anything about linux.
what is swap memory?
I have dual boot system with windows7 and ubuntu 9.04
My hard disk size is 320GB and RAM is 4GB.

Currently swap memory size is 4.3GB.

Can I increase swap size? will it have any advantage?
how to do that?

thank you!

kerry_s
August 8th, 2010, 10:52 AM
yes, you can increase, but you have more than enough already, it most likely will never get used since you have 4 gig's of ram.

swap is like the windows page file.

i have 2 gig's ram & don't hibernate, so i didn't even bother adding a swap partition. i installed "swapspace" which will dynamically create swap files if i ever do need swap.

Astigmatism
August 8th, 2010, 11:28 AM
yes, you can increase, but you have more than enough already, it most likely will never get used since you have 4 gig's of ram.

swap is like the windows page file.

i have 2 gig's ram & don't hibernate, so i didn't even bother adding a swap partition. i installed "swapspace" which will dynamically create swap files if i ever do need swap.


thanx a lot kerry_s!