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?
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.
-Ross