On 08/18/2010 10:55 AM, James Mckenzie wrote: > Andras Simon <sza...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sent: Aug 18, 2010 4:20 AM >> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> >> Subject: Re: Is swap really needed when RAM's aplenty >> >> On 8/18/10, Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com> wrote: >>> I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. >>> >>> 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. >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by "need", but Fedora will run without a >> swap partition. >> > It will, that is true, but from my UNIX training, it is always a good idea to > have a swap partition, but you don't have to follow the 2x rule. 500MB or > maybe even 250MB will do. Check it with the swap command, and if no space is > ever used, then you can remove it and reclaim the space. Never say "swap is > not needed". I've seen systems with 32 GB of available ram use swap. > > James McKenzie > One other reason you might want swap - if you want to be able to suspend to disk, you need enough swap to hole the current state of the machine. I would have a swap partition slightly larger then physical memory if you plan to use that option.
Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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