Swap problems

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/2/8 lee <leewen at primus.ca>

>  Brian McKee wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Dake K. Odzangba <odzangba at gmail.com> <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.
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> Brian
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> 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.
>
Some people says that there are occasions when it's better with no swap. One
of those is when you don't have a HDD, using an SSD or similar instead,
because some people say that these will die too early if they are used for
swap.
I guess not everyone agree, though.
J.R.


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