On 28/10/11 13:51, Clive Cooper wrote: > The swap is not important and to be honest since the amount of memory > is normally over 2 or 3 GB nowadays I have never seen the swap space > ever get used, I have monitored using 'top'.
I regularly use my swap space. It's where Linux stores the state of my system whenever I hibernate it :-) It's a bit of a pain, having to have a 4GB chunk of my hard drive dedicated just for this but, hey, hard drive space is cheap :-) Apologies for the interruption, it's just that everyone nowadays seems to be saying that you don't need swap space and forgets this rather important (to some of us) use of it, so I've made it my mission to remind people every time I see it said that swap is unnecessary. (Can you see my halo? No? I must try harder ;-) ) Back to lurking. David Shaw -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
