setting size of swap based on amount of RAM

[John Heim]

Anybody  invented a good way to determine the size of the swap partition 
based on the amount of RAM? I guess what I could do is have different 
classes for amount of RAM and then have a different a different partitioning 
file for each. But I'm already getting too many partitioning schemes. I 
already have different classes for linux-only vs dual-boot machines. And 
then I have some drastically different hard disk sizes so I have different 
classes for very small and very large HDs.

Anyway, I digress... It would be nice if only I could say "go to the high 
end of the range for the swap partition if there's a lot of RAM and toward 
the low end if not."

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John Heim
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