Swap faq announce

[Santiago Erquicia]

On 5/15/05, Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com> wrote:

> > also no answer yet to the question, i turn off swap on my laptop, will i get more batter life? i have 768mb of ram, so i dont really need swap do i?
> 
>   Well, all in all, i don't think so. Is there a reason to think
> otherwise ? If you have enough ram, linux will swap out pages if it
> thinks this will decrease overall disk access (increasing the amount of
> available cached memory). Maybe i'm wrong ?
> 

Wouldn't you need it for suspending (hibernating) your computer?  In
that case, don't you need at least the amount of RAM you have?

Santiago