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 ...

RFC proposes power-button interrupt – and highlights wider problems with sleep states A new Linux kernel patch lets you ...

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 ...

(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) ...

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 ...