On 07/21/2011 04:49 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:27:58 Grant did opine thusly: >>>> Thanks Paul. I'm leaning toward leaving swap disabled. So >>>> I'm sure I have the concept right, is adding a 1GB swap >>>> partition functionally identical to adding 1GB RAM with >>>> regard to the potential for out-of-memory conditions? >>> >>> Yep. >> >> It sounds like adding physical RAM is better than enabling swap in >> every way. I'll stay in the anti-swap camp. > > To throw a spanner in my own works: > > Some kernels *really* want at least some swap, even if it's just a > little bit. IIRC it fits the role of a bit of wiggle room for when RAM > is full.
I was waiting for this =) Alan's previous advice (basically, everything should fit in RAM these days) is only true in a world where the VM doesn't occasionally make stupid decisions. In real life...
