RAM question for everyone!

[Michael Cronenworth]

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Subject: Re: RAM question for everyone!
From: Alan Evans <ame.fedora at gmail.com>
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. 
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Date: 01/23/2009 10:19 AM

> 
> This question, along with other recent discussion about swap, leads me
> to ask a question in response: Why is everyone so concerned about how
> to get away without swap?
> 
> Hard drives are cheap. Why does your server with potentially 10GB
> (!!!) of RAM have a hard drive so small that you can't sacrifice a few
> GB for swap?
> 
> I'm really curious.
> 

SATA Hard drive speeds - 70 megs to 150 megs a second unless you're RAIDing
DDR2 RAM speeds - 6000 megs a second and up.

If performance is a key issue, which I'm sure it is, you don't want swap.