There are good and bad things about swap. Myself, I come down on the side
that the good outweighs the negatives and with disk space being so cheap
these days there is no reason to skimp. If you had a lot of memory,
wanted to go cheap on disk space, and could foresee that your use would be
so light relative to your real memory that your machine would never hit
swap, then having swap may not be for you. I have a couple of fairly
heavy duty servers with 2Gb of RAM each; neither has used any swap since
last rebooted almost 6 weeks ago, but I still have 2Gb of swap space
allocated on each - just in case. But if someone wants to risk running
out of memory when they try printing a web page from Netscape (try
printing www.mslinux.org), then they should be allowed to do so.
- rick warner
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Vidiot wrote:
> > Why do I _need_ to create a swap partition? I thought this had
> > finally been fixed in RH 6.2, but its back again!
>
> And why would you possibly want to run a Unix system without swap?
>
> > Sorry for being so negative, but I often have to do complicated
> > installs with multiple operating systems, and this silly swap
> > partition requirement is just a pure nuisance.
>
> Since when is swap silly?
>
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