[Techtalk] /usr Partition

[Val Henson]

On 1/19/06, Travis Casey <efindel at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> If you want to be able to analyze the results of system memory in the
> event of a crash and full core dump, swap should be at least as big
> as system memory.  If you don't care, then the only thing you need
> swap for is if everything you're running won't fit into memory at once.

Good point!  I keep forgetting that Linux has crash dump support now,
even though I spent part of yesterday trying to set it up on my Ubuntu
install (answer: not easy).

-VAL