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OSR5 FAQ

I've added more ram, do I need to increase swap?

Not necessarily. There is a detailed discussion of this at /Boot/swap.html, but the main points are:

• If you have enough RAM, you don't need ANY swap.
• However, if you are concerned with saving panic dump information, you WILL need sufficient dump space.
• You can add swap space without resizing divisions by using the "swap" command to swap to a file; see "man swap" and :

• How much swap space do I need?
• Can I add more swap space?

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