> My new laptop has 16 GB RAM, so I didn't set it up with any swap at > all. If you have plenty of RAM, why even bother with a swap partition?
I agree that in general most systems shouldn't need swap these days. If you ARE swapping, the difference in speed is so dramatic these days that you might has well have run out of memory with no swap. All drives are just so much slower than memory (as opposed to 10 years ago when the speed difference was smaller). HOWEVER, if you ever want to suspend to disk, you probably need swap. And it ought to be as big as your memory. For my VMs and most servers, I always turn off swap though. tim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
