I posed a query on the Boston Linux and Unix list. We've got a lot of very experienced Unix and Linux people. There was no concensus. Some always configure swap. But, it really depends on what the system is being used form. If you have a personal desktop system with a lot of ram, then you may not need swap at all, but if you want multiple desktops and like to leave a lot of things resident, then leave some swap so the system can free up some memory if it needs to. If you run a server, apache and sendmail can gobble up memory. And certainly if you are running some very memory hungry applications (CAD for instance), you might want a lot of swap, and possibly multiple swap partitions. On 7 Oct 2002 at 19:14, gilson redrick wrote:
Please excuse me for my insatiable (I almost typed "insane") curiosity: what do you need a 1.2 GB swap for? The "rule" for swap to be double of RAM applied in the days of RAM being 48 or 96 MB... [My first PC had a "spacious" 16 MB of RAM, which eventually I upgraded to 48 MB! And, of course, *no* HD at all!) But 1.2 GB? Even if you do a lot of video editing or CAD, it's still a lot of real estate!
Just curious.
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