[Trisquel-users] Re : uruk gnu/linux 2.0 beta-2

[lcerf]

That is wrong.  If the RAM is not close to be full, the swap is basically  
left unused (if you want the kernel to use the swap even less, then set  
vm.swappiness in /etc/sysctl.conf to a smaller value).  If you run out of  
RAM, the system is slow but, at least, it lets you save your work and close  
some programs to free memory.  In the latter situation, if the system does  
not have swap, the kernel kills a process.  Hopefully not a program on which  
you have been working for hours without saving...

Also, swap partitions allow you to hibernate the system.