On 08/18/2010 04:00 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap > partition set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for > hibernation, but this server does not need to hibernate.
Depends on the purpose of the machine. Desktops often don't. If your system is dedicated to running a single very large application, it is. Although processes under Linux get a COW image of their parent's memory at the time they fork(), the default configuration requires that there is at least enough memory for a copy. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
