Re: [Cooker] 4GB physical ram: need swap space?

[Pixel]

"J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> AFAIK, in short: you want to be able to use 1Gb, define 1Gb of swap, the
> amount of ram does not matter. You have to be able to have all you apps
> in swap, and then 'select' which ones are 'copied' to main memory to run faster.

you must also take into account that most memory usage is not "Data", but "Code"
which doesn't need to be swapped. A box with just enough memory for "Data" will
be slow as hell. Swap helps here to free "Data" memory of seldom used processes.