UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello all,

I just got a laptop with redhat linux 7.2 installed, but during the installation the installer only put 1gig of sawp space( this laptop has 1gig of RAM). To my understanding when creating swap space, the size is determine by double the RAM. Therefore my question is that how do I increase the swap space now? The only reason is that this laptop is very slow. When I issues free command I see that swap only has 520 free when I'm just doing simple things i.e simple complie. THANKS

the general rule for makeing swap is 2*ram=swap.

with modern computers comming w/ gogles of memory. (yes gogles is a actual unit of mesure)

1 gig swap is find and dandy.

on my e3500 i have 1 gig of memory. but my swap is also only 1gig.


no need to worry about running into performance issues. cuz you wont.

Thanks for your reply Optimus,

But I did run into problems. I don't know what it is but simple command like "mv /tmp/HOLD ." would take 2 sec and ls would take 2 sec also to start. When I use free It shows that the swap is there and not being used at all. I just don't get it. I have no problems with my desktop Linux. Actually with 512M of Ram, runs faster then my laptop.
I end up making a swap file of 1gig. But this does not seem to work. I think that I have to send my laptop back or ask them to send mv another gard drive that is correctly formated/partition. THANKS