When your Linux server starts feeling sluggish, you might benefit from looking at your swap space and gauging whether it’s adequately sized for your system’s workload. Fortunately, Linux has some ...

Discover 5 powerful Linux features to fine-tune your system for maximum performance, including CPU governor settings, ...

When it comes to system administration, one of the earliest decisions to be made is how to configure swap space. Many readers already are thinking they know what to do: throw in as much RAM as you can ...

One of the first things new Linux users often get confused about is the need to create a disk partition for swap space. After all, neither Windows nor Mac OS X make you do any such thing, what's the ...

(Linux uses the swap partition as one big contiguous file anyway.)<P>Otherwise, if making multiple swap partitions doesn't appeal to you, you could make one gigantic ext2 (or FAT32, or what have you) ...

I'm going to get a 100GB hard drive Saturday and I was thinking of dividing it up so I could put multiple versions of linux on it. I want to put just one swap file on the front of the drive and let ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...