On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:53:08AM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Christian DeKonink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can debian be run without a swap partition? > > Sure can. It's sensible to provide some sort of swap capability if you > can -- otherwise you can get into a position where Linux will be unable > to do /anything/ because it ran out of memory. It does not cope well > with this (relatively speaking).
Moreover if the RAM you have is sufficent for your needs, then in some cases you may notice that a system without swap is faster than the one with swap. I had noticed it once on my old desktop p133/8MB RAM. I do not know Linux's memory management well enough to say how it copes with too little memory, but what i think increases the speed is that when it runs short on memory it just squeezes somehow prosesses' needs for memory instead of swapping them out. regards Marcin -- --------------------------------- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------
