I wish someone from RH could confirm this, I have a lot of ram but not a 
lot of disk space and i'd hate to waste it:)


On 5 Oct 2002, Evan Read wrote:

> My understanding is that it is a good idea ;)
> 
> Even a little swap is handy, otherwise Linux kernel code exhibits bad
> performance.  Though bad is relative.  There is a document on the web
> discussing Linux vs FreeBSD database performance with 0 swap space.
> 
> FreeBSD was ok (obviously designed to deal with it) and Linux sucked
> (having _some_ swap made all the difference).
> 
> Can't immediately find the reference.  Anyone else remember it?
> 
> Prolly gonna be fixed in 2.6 I suppose.
> 
> Evan.
> 
> On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 17:20, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> > does anyone know if you really need swap if you already have a lot of RAM?
> > 
> > 
> > On 5 Oct 2002, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > > One of my work colleagues (an ex-mainframe guy) coined a phrase well
> > > > worth repeating here:
> > > >     "All good operating systems will use all the memory you give them."
> > > >
> > > > :-)
> > >
> > > One of the servers where i work has 1Gb of ram doesnt actually do much
> > > never goes over 200mb of physical ram used  but still insits on using
> > > swap space,  os will remain unnamed.
> > >
> > > Dennis
> > >
> > >
> > >
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