On 24-Mar-01 James, Rick wrote:
> 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.
I'm not an expert, but i heard from various people it's nice to have some
swap.
Linux (especially 2.4) likes to keep things into memory, and just push it
in the swap, even if not all the Ram is being used.
You might like to read up on this:
http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010316_111.html#5
which is always a nice resource for kernel-issues.
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Marcel Pol
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