RAM question for everyone!

[Bryn M. Reeves]

Dan Track wrote:
> I was recently asked a question about how much RAM should there be
> within a server given that the APP uses 8GB of Memory, should I buy
> 10Gig of memory and have a small harddrive and no swap space? Would
> this configuration allow everything in my OS to run from RAM and not
> from swap? If this is the case then there's no need to ever create
> swap, is there?!?

You don't mention the platform, but can we assume it's 64-bit 
(x86_64?) from the fact that "the app" is using 8G of ram?

Regards,
Bryn.