On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 10:04 am, Netsonic wrote:
> Something Ive never actually looked at with regard to Linux.
>
> Is it possible to just not use a swap partition at all.
>
> The intended machine has 768 Mb Ram.
>
> Would this speed Linux up ?? Or am i better keeping the swap partition.
>
> Stevo


A swap partition is not compulsory. In fact if you run Knoppix, by default it 
does not use  swap. If you have more memory than your applications demand 
then you do not need it.

Will it speed things up, not having swap?  
No.



derek

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