> I believe that you really should have a swap partion
This is not true. To begin with, you don't need swap space if you have
enough memory. For linux, swap is just an extra bunch of (slow) memory
that can be used if need be. If it is not there, and enough RAM is
available, that is not a problem. Secondly, you can do with a swap file
instead of partition. To use a swap file of 8 MB, you would do
something like ( from the mkswap man page)
# dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=8192
# mkswap swapfile 8192
# sync
# swapon swapfile
You can put an item like
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0
in /etc/fstab to activate the swap file every time the system boots
(assuming swapfile is in / ). However it is true that a swap partition
is definitively faster than a file.
Eric Meijer
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