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Is Swap Necessary?

Posted by michael on from the got-swap? dept.

johnnyb writes "Kernel Trap has a great conversation on swap, whether it's necessary, why swapless systems might seem faster, and an overall discussion of swap issues in modern computing. This is often an issue for system administrators, and this is a great set of posts about the issue."

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  1. Re:If You have enough RAM by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But that's a horrible waste of 256M of ram. I dunno what y'all are whining about but I never really noticed swap problems on either of my own boxes [512M ram in desktop, 768M in laptop].

    Just set aside a few hundred M for swap and be done with. Specially since HD space is so cheap.

    Tom

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