Swap partition question

[Willem van der Walt]

You can run linux without swap space, but in general, it is better to have 
some swap space if you do not want to really run out of memory.
I would give at least one gigabyte swap.
Regards, Willem


On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Christian wrote:

> Hi all,
> I've had to reinstall Arch onto my machine here and I have also expanded my computer wiht more RAM so now I have 4 GB of RAM.
> So my question is, is it still nesesary to create a swap partition when I have this amount of RAM? And if so, how much is recommended?
> Many thanks for any help,
> Christian
>
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