Ideal Swap Partition Size

[Gordon Messmer]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:06 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> maybe based on the idea that swapping will cause the system to 
>> behave badly
> 
> It seems strange to think that a system will swap just because there's
> swap space available.

No where did I suggest that.  What I was referring to was that several 
people are endorsing system configurations with little or no swap space 
in order to prevent the system from even being able to swap.