cbagger01
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Posted: Feb. 14 2004,03:33 |
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crori:
A bigger swap partition does not slow down your computer. Your operating system only uses the swap file when all other memory is allocated and there is no more RAM left available.
Because you have so little RAM in your computer, it will almost certainly need to swap out and behave slower than an equivalent computer with 32MB+ RAM.
Best advice is:
A bigger swap file will prevent your system from crashing when it runs out of memory.
Buying more memory would be nice, but old RAM chips are usually expensive.
Otherwise, you could either:
(1) Accept the slowness as a fact of life, kinda like someone who owns an original VW Beetle.
(2) Look for an even smaller Linux distro like Grey Cat Linux or Basic Linux. Hopefully they have a version of XWindows that will work for you.
(3) Get used to using Linux from the text mode instead of the Xwindows interface.
Good Luck.
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