Quote Originally Posted by fingers99
I like swap. I believe in swap. The Linux swap model is very sophisticated. Even with half a gig of RAM I'm regularly using 10 to 15% swap. You might reasonably cut the half gig down to 250Mb, but you have little RAM, so I'd advise against doing without swap (although the system will still run).
IIRC, swap should be the amount of RAM you have x2 up to a maximum of 512 MB?