Swap is indeed optional. I've been running Debian with X/e16/screen/vim/irssi/xmms/mozilla for a a while (a year? or two?) and never noticed any performance difference. I doubt anyone else would either. (DDR2-800 2048MB, 2GHz dual core Athlon, before that DDR-400 1024MB, 2GHz single core Athlon).
So imho its perfectly feasible to run a desktop with a decent amount of memory without swap. On 5/15/07, Zach Himsel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 5/14/07, Peter S. May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Linux, swap space is its own partition > I just realized something. You have the option to NOT use swap > space in Linux. Does this mean that there is no memory written > to disk? If so, then it might be plausible to either have a > dedicated machine with no swapfile for the encryption or > temporarily turn off swap for the encryption/decryption process > and then re-enable it after. > > - -- > Zach Himsel <z.himsel[at]gmail.com> <tinyurl.com/yjxo8s> > |_|0|_| ----------- OpenPGP Key: 0x9A1DFCAC ----------- > |_|_|0| () I support the **ASCII Ribbon Campaign** > |0|0|0| /\ (against html mail & proprietary attachments) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) - GPGshell v3.61 > > iQEVAwUBRki9xba4sKCaHfysAQKnIQf/X0fTUHfWhjQMg3I8AJ0JtTD4IerNMFVT > 2YOJv1fgqvOL2gx6se166DAlViy1YFLw3e8ZJd4aFVKE/1tz5VOZ2OJ+lV8AvauR > HGVgOnvPjtD2Bywy1mpbMX50ARFX4kkArrah96IT5OAa6sHSXG+dGMUu12NMj1Cg > 7RpGbMkf60Gchf2PIKyzIEvzK+ihXeHRXiuqLiYNc9rlkkc6N+G0FT2xH4Z6iXX+ > Ar3w2jGPE5CSaYEuMUO9KT8rbB7oRw/yWwkPKOLe1qD3PQwSraEynaJ+o2cg/que > JETJVHGlCXJoS9Nu56adcUMQDYR5fSg+o2lyThMuRFubI7yKwq6UGQ== > =Z6GO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
