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 ...

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 ...

One of the first things new Linux users often get confused about is the need to create a disk partition for swap space. After all, neither Windows nor Mac OS X make you do any such thing, what's the ...

(Linux uses the swap partition as one big contiguous file anyway.)<P>Otherwise, if making multiple swap partitions doesn't appeal to you, you could make one gigantic ext2 (or FAT32, or what have you) ...

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 ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...