why ubuntu LTS installs all in a single partition?

[Mauro Sanna]

On 3 August 2013 05:13, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

2G of swap?
If I have a large amount of ram why do I need so much swap?
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