I have a 4GB RAM laptop with 500GB hard-disc space and I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. So, I need to use the android studio a lot and recommended RAM for that is 8GB. My computer crashes a lot lately so really either should buy an 8GB Ram to do the swap partition. I would love to find a solution with no costs!  So my question is this: Should I swap space to double my RAM? Would that be harmful to my computer? Please, guys, be nice!
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I read many places that the rule of thumb for swap space is to double the amount of physical RAM. However, 32 GB does seem a LOT. Do I need that much? Do I need it at all with this high amount of physical RAM?
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I'm running a Dell Studio XPS, with quad core processor, two threads per core, with 12GB of installed RAM. According to Windows, only 7.99GB of that RAM is usable.  The really weird part is, up until two weeks ago I only had 8GB of RAM and then only 3.99GB was usable. So 4GB of RAM is consistently being taken.  I've checked in every screen, under every option in my BIOS and there doesn't seem to be a memory option there at all (that's a damn Dell for you). I've read that a lot of times this can occur because of the video card stealing some RAM for itself.   Is there some way I can check this, other than the BIOS? I have onboard graphics, not a separate card.  I'm running Windows 7 64-bit.
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I have a 4GB DDR3 800Mhz recently I installed another 4GB. It turns out it's  DDR3 667MHz. Does it really matter I should own both rams 800MHz?    Slot1 shows recent RAM installation. ALSO I don't know if this is 1600MHz (it shows 800x2 and 667x2 for other) or just 800MHz ram.
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I have, by default, 250MB of swap space in Ubuntu, and I want to expand it to a larger size. I need 800MB, which I think will be enough to open several applications without having to hit the current limit of swap. I hope someone can help me.
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Recently, I put more ram into my server and now I have got a total of 24GB of RAM. Originally, I setup the OS to have a 2GB swap size.  /dev/sdc1               1         281     2257101   82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdc2   *         282       60801   486126900   83  Linux   2GB is allocated for swap currently, but reading around it seems it is not much. For a system with 24GB, I am thinking to allocate at least 10GB of swap.   My questions is: Can I do it while the OS is running? Do I have to reinstall?  I am using OpenSuse 11.3
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I have a laptop with win7 installed. I have now made a 60gb partition which I want to install ubuntu into. The question I have, before I do the installation, is how large each of the root, swap, and home partition should be? I have read some place that root could be as small as 8GB, but isn't that too small? Since I guess beside ubuntu all the softwares installed will reside there as well? And I think I'm going to set my swap to be 2GB large.  My main concern is how large should the root partition should be. I'm mainly going to use ubuntu for programming and browse the web.
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I'm installing ubuntu onto a new laptop with 24gb SSD and a 500gb HDD. I wanted to put / and swap onto the SSD and /home onto the HDD. Is there anything I shouldn't use ext4 for?  I do not ever intend to dual boot. Ubuntu only.
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Going to install Ubuntu 10.10 on new intel x25M 80GB SSD. It will be fresh install. I have been googling for past few days and getting overwhelming articles/blogs/Q&amp;As. One particularly very useful being:     But with so many suggestions and differences of opinions (on different links) this simple OS install process seems to be daunting task to me and I really want to stick with Ubuntu (although have used for very short period of time).  Can someone help me by answering few questions (yes, they are repeated because I couldn't comprehend the answers elsewhere)   Which file system (ext2/3/4 or something else)? (consider SSD life) Can it be changed after installation? Should I partition the disk? (as we do in traditional HDD) for now, no plan of dual booting. Only Ubuntu will live on scarce space of 80GB SSD. I have 2 GB RAM, should i still allocate swap space (if I don't allocate swap space, can I still hibernate the machine)? will swap space impact SSD life? Should I consider putting additional 1GB RAM to avoid swap space? What is partition aligning? Is it needed to be done before installing the Ubuntu OS or can be done later?   Intended usage - heavy browsing, programming, regular video/music and some other non-CPU/RAM-intensive programs. Will keep big files in an external hard drive.  laptop config - 3yr old Vaio, Core2 Duo, 2GB RAM  More references:        (resizing/creating does not seem a simple process after look this)
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I have a dell laptop with 4GB of ram and 500GB of storage.I just finished installing windows 8.1 32bit version, which utilizes 3GB of ram.  Can I install and run Ubuntu to utilize that unusable portion of Ram.Then how?  Thanks in advance
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I'm an android developer and have laptop with 4GB RAM. When I compile my project the RAM is used at 100%.    If I add more RAM will it solve the problem?
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I have a Samsung NP300e5Z i5 laptop. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 in this laptop.  my system RAM is 4GB and i want to increase it but i am not sure how many memory slots are available in my system. so, how to check    how many memory slots available? how many slots my system is currently using? what is maximum RAM size that I can increase to?   any suggestion will appreciated
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I plan on installing Ubuntu 19.04 and give it 100 GB of my 256 GB SSD space and leave the rest for Windows as I would primarily be using Ubuntu.     A. Now, as I plan to install a lot of applications in Ubuntu, should I give more space to the / partition than the home partition? (Or maybe even drop the /home altogether?).    B. I have another 128 GB SD card for files like photos, audio and video files. Please suggest me the optimal partitioning for the use case.    C. Also, I have 8 GB of RAM so what should be the optimal swap partition size?    D. How would the distribution be if I choose "install Ubuntu alongside Windows" option?
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This is going to seem like a silly question, but many many years ago I somehow got it into my head, perhaps from reading an article or speaking to people 'in the know' that a computer should not be run with 'odd' amounts of ram, such as 3,  5, 7 etc...    Is there any truth in this whatsoever?  I have a vmware environment with many servers in it.  I want to go through and alter the amounts of ram to reduce the overall ram usage and in many cases I want to give a server 3gb of ram as opposed to 4 or 2.
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For a desktop installation in a new and shiny laptop (let's say 16gb ram and ssd hd), does it make sense to have a swap partition?
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Possible Duplicate:          I have been working on computers for quite some time now and realize the importance of virtual memory.  I have been assuming that setting this to twice the amount of RAM installed is what is necessary.  However, as memory has been growing over the years, I am wondering if this is still true.  For example, on my 6 GB RAM system is it best practice to set the virtual memory size to 12 GB? For smaller ram systems, is it worthwhile in performance to set the virtual ram to something even more (i.e. 1GB physical ram and 3GB virtual)?
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I'm trying to convince somebody of the benefits of switching to a 64-bit OS but I'm having a hard time finding arguments other than "you can use more than 3GB RAM". Are there any other clearly-communicable benefits in having a 64-bit operating system?
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Today I bought a Lenovo G510 Laptop (4GB Ram, 500GB Hard Drive) and need install both Ubuntu and Windows 7. I have some questions regarding this.   What OS should I install first ? What are the partition sizes should I put for swap, root and home ?