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Older [Linux] [Kernel]s could not use more than 128[MB] of swap in a single partition.
New kernels do not have this limitation, but you shouldn't have more than about 256MB of swap (128MB is probably enough really).
If you find yourself running into swap a lot you should buy more RAM.
- Swap is not a substitute for RAM, it is a safety zone so that your system doesn't run out of [RAM] and kill running processes
.
+ Swap is not a substitute for RAM, it is a safety zone so that your system doesn't run out of [RAM] and trigger the dreaded OomKiller
.
It is also used as a place to swap out rarely used chunks of [RAM] (ie all those getty(8)s you still have running while you're in X).
! hda3: / (1-4GB)
