On 15 Dec 2004, at 15:55, Robert Kiely wrote:
> I'm using gentoo linux at the moment and I'm not really
> doing that much with it but I'm not using a swap
> partition because I thought that with 768MB of RAM it
> wouldn't be neccesary. Please enlighten me as to whether or
> not I really need it...
That's a really easy question to answer. You need a swap partition if
your virtual memory requirements will exceed 768MB. But what will my
virtual memory requirements be, do I hear you ask? That, unfortunately,
is a somewhat harder question to answer. You'll just have to suck it
and see. Run without swap, and periodically run free to see how your
memory usage is going.
But anyway, you're a gentoo user. Doesn't compiling your own highly
optimised gentoo packages eliminate the need for swap anyway?
Niall
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