From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Surda Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:19:28 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Swap size Message-Id: <441EE420.4030605@shurdix.com> List-Id: References: <1142840644.441e5d441d095@webmail.yanbulink.net> In-Reply-To: <1142840644.441e5d441d095@webmail.yanbulink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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 -- http://www.shurdix.org - Linux distribution for routers and firewalls _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc