From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1CA138010 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5283E011E; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C8B8E043A for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:15:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenq6 with SMTP id q6so1209181yen.40 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:15:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Q2+KtwbJ7hkiuB6n+Env6FZAe1yBkccpZfNLtIQDoUU=; b=TAxVlbsjhrXRQxKfzQBrV6cc9Ezvx/1v9RFAs5FhLkQsXV8H2fdLAIubqLTp2B8/8l zUZcgE61S/Si4nYv0/Rrap7eQ4AnWMIWaxDRmz7dStgV0Dntj0zycU063fslziMpTkqZ T5/AwAik1bnAITkJYC4W8JMJxgkLJ8MlfSgU9lfGWZdubqkKgmJXRuJHUVcm41F7DVpg uRcxPyRh+qdP0e8UDoiEjBm68rDvjg/a+ClcK63sy+3te5dvqkn6vZgg2mg/HO+xutif gic65vruUAeqdI2Nv7AGpUQFD6eFNorM3DNnv8UvQGiie33CWdUYOixF79cPF9PZqHpO pEww== Received: by 10.236.115.38 with SMTP id d26mr18407657yhh.40.1346768133789; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-93-201.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.93.201]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w1sm14885527anm.8.2012.09.04.07.15.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50460D03.6070808@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:15:31 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120902 Firefox/15.0 SeaMonkey/2.12 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go? References: , <504518A3.7000207@binarywings.net>, , In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 5e4c2f1f-2426-4e8a-bb72-6e5bbc858e1e X-Archives-Hash: 63e9c9d04816d7ce151904b454792d0e "Roland Häder" wrote: > - sda2 - encrypted swap (at least as double as your RAM) (crypt-swap) > > Regards, > Roland > > [1]: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/DM-Crypt > > I don't think this is true anymore. It was back when machines had small amounts of ram. Case in point, I have 16Gbs of ram. If I have a program that needs more than that, I need a bigger machine anyway. Since ram has got so large, and cheap, I always make my swap around 1Gb or so. If something does run away and eat up ram, I got enough swap that I have time to kill it. I would not make a 32Gb swap partition tho. That would slow about any machine to a crawl if it starts using that much. I think the new method for determining swap is to use what makes sense and not the old rule of 'twice the ram'. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!