On 11/25/02 6:54 PM, "Robert Nicholson" <robert at elastica.com> wrote: > I remember when I last installed Linux's that the recommended VM > swapfile size was that of twice the physical memory. OSX uses 80MB swapfiles. The way I read it, if you have sufficient memory, you rarely need more than one. I occasionally check to see, and I have never seen more than two. This link explains it pretty well http://www.ResExcellence.com/hack_html_01/09-14.01.html Cheers, TJ