new memory = more swap?

[thedogfarted]

I doubt you need to increase swap unless you already experience a lack 
of swap space. I have 512M RAM and only 256M swap space, but i've never 
had more that 50% of swap space used.

Craig Thomas wrote:
> I have 256MB ram and a 502MB swap, and want to increase to 384MB ram, [i
> know, i know it's an old machine].  I've read in the RH manual and else
> where that double the amount of ram is "right".  If I want more swap but
> don't have any unpartitioned space left, what are my options?  (I do,
> however, have lots of free space on my drive).
> 
> TIA
> 
> -Craig
> 
> 

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