[K12OSN] Quick Question about Swap partitions

Jim Kronebusch jim at winonacotter.org
Wed Jul 25 15:31:04 UTC 2007


> You can run large RAM machines with no swap. By large RAM I mean 2GB and
> up. After 1GB of RAM, swap is nearly useless anyway.
> 
> Besides saying "I have a machine with 32GB of SWAP" doesn't sound as
> cool as "I have a machine with 32GB or RAM". :}
> 
> If you _really_ want to go "hardcore" make a 2GB ramdisk and use that
> for swap!

Thanks for the info.

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