On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, James, Rick wrote:
> Hello memory experts,
> I've always been under the impression that Linux REQUIRES a swap
> partition. Is that true?
> Reason for question: I'm considering a system with 4GB ram. If a
> swap partition is required, I think that might force me to use a PAE
> enabled kernel to access the swap space addresses. I don't care to
> use PAE if it can be avoided and I really don't need the swap anyways.
On the basis that you can run a system with the swap disabled (swapoff -a),
I would assume that you don't have to have a swap partition.
BTW, how are you fitting 4GB RAM into a system? What motherboards / DIMMs
are you using?
Michael
