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[Sam Tygier]

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

I have 768mb ram and 512mb swap, and i can suspend/sleep fine, its a power book so the mechanism might be different, it think the data stays in ram.


sam