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 ...

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 ...

Well I've been considering installing Debian onto my laptop to experiment with it. However, being relatively new to to Linux (used it frequently but have only installed it once), I was wondering what ...

Swap space can play an important role in system performance. Learn how to determine how much swap space your system has available and how much it's being used. Most of us don’t often think about swap ...

Is it possible to say, install two Linux distros, each on their own partition, and have them share a swap partition? or is it better to give each distro its own partition? No problem that I can think ...