Ross Walker wrote:
On Jan 22, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:31:20 +0100:
You need a combined(!) 768MB of RAM and Swap to successfully install CentOS 5.2 (see the release notes).
in graphics mode.
And really it is a performance question as long as you have 256M of real memory, the rest swap. Since I always make my swap > 2xRAM, I am always installing on a system with at least 768Mb combined.
I do not like the DIsk Druid default of putting the swap drive into the LVM partition. I always redo the partitions so that swap is its own partition.
Why is that? Old school habit or is there a real benefit?
It just feels wrong in so many ways.
Why is /boot its own partition and not swap? I suspend to swap, so swap has to be as accessible as /boot?
Am I going to enlarge swap at some point using LVM tools? Or shrink it? Can you even do that with a swap partition in LVM? So what ARE the values of swap in LVM? One less partition, I would think if you are going duo boot. But if not, again, where is the beef?
Swap performance should be equally good whether it be raw disk, raw partition, LVM logical volume or even a flat file on today's kernels, but maybe there is something I am unaware of.