Swap problems

lee leewen at primus.ca
Sun Feb 8 13:36:33 UTC 2009


Brian McKee wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Dake K. Odzangba <odzangba at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello, I do not have a swap partition (or file) because I've got 2GB of
>> physical ram. Yet the output of free tells me:
>>     
>
> What's in your fstab?  and what is the output of 'swapon -s' ?
>
> Swap isn't evil you know, just because you have 2 gig of ram doesn't
> mean swap wouldn't be useful, and having swap is better than not
> having swap.
>
> I'd set up a gig or two of swap in a file or partition if I was you.
>
> Brian
>
>
>   
It is always better to have a swap partition than not, I have 4gigs of 
ram and still run a swap and have used it on more than occasion.

Lee

leewen at primus.ca
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