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From: Peter Surda <surda@shurdix.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Swap size
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:19:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <441EE420.4030605@shurdix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142840644.441e5d441d095@webmail.yanbulink.net>

gypsy wrote:
> Even with huge, and 8 gigs of RAM is huge, amounts of RAM, you need a
> dedicated swap partition.  Don't believe those who say you don't.
On the contrary. I run many systems without any swap at all.

What you get by using swap is (from a very simplified point of view) 
that if you use up all memory, instead of the programs crashing, the 
system gets "slower" (but keeps running). Whether to use swap or not 
depends on what you're doing with your computer.

> gypsy
Yours sincerely,
Peter

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-20 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-20  7:44 [LARTC] Swap size wlagmay
2006-03-20  9:55 ` lartc
2006-03-20 12:39 ` Kajetan Staszkiewicz
2006-03-20 15:33 ` gypsy
2006-03-20 15:47 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2006-03-20 15:48 ` lartc
2006-03-20 17:19 ` Peter Surda [this message]
2006-03-20 17:43 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2006-03-21  9:40 ` Carlos Blanquer
2006-03-21 14:08 ` wlagmay
2006-03-21 16:03 ` Jason Boxman
2006-03-21 16:49 ` Carlos Blanquer
2006-03-21 16:52 ` Carlos Blanquer
2006-03-22 15:56 ` Anton Glinkov
2006-03-22 17:19 ` Tomas Simonaitis
2006-03-22 18:25 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2006-03-27 10:50 ` Brett

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