On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Grant<emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I read on this list that the kernel needs *some* swap, even just a >>> tiny amount, to function properly. Is that true? If so, do you think >>> it would be OK to put this tiny amount of swap on a cheap SSD? >> >> I have no swap and things work just fine. (8 gigs of RAM) >> >> Obviously, running without swap increases the chances of you running >> out of memory, but that has never happened to me. > > I've been setting up all of my systems according to this, creating a > 512MB swap partition: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=4 > > If I have 4GB RAM, all I'm accomplishing with swap is increasing this > to 4.5GB? If my system requires 4.6GB at some point, I'm in the same > position I would be in if I had no swap and 4.1GB requirement?
As far as I understand it, correct.
