why ubuntu LTS installs all in a single partition?

[Christofer C. Bell]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 August 2013 19:14, Mauro Sanna <mrsanna1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You don't use swap on servers too?
>
> It's a fileserver. Just a fileserver. With 3GB of RAM, it doesn't /need/
> swap.
>
> Just for an easy life, I have the full Unity desktop on there, too. It
> idles at under 500MB of usage. In other words, full loaded, it uses
> about one-sixth of its memory: the rest is disk cache.
>
> Who needs swap any more?
>

While it may work for you, a blanket recommendation to have no swap should
be avoided.  Please look into how Linux handles memory allocations
(specifically look into vm.overcommit_memory and vm.overcommit_ratio).  For
modern Linux systems with large amounts of RAM, a good rule of thumb is to
have 2GB of swap.

-- 
Chris

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the
Universe." -- Carl Sagan
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