why ubuntu LTS installs all in a single partition?

[Liam Proven]

On 4 August 2013 00:20, Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you do not have a reasonable amount of swap in the system, any processes
> that request more memory to be allocated than you have free *physically*
> will not start, even if they do not need all the memory requested.  This
> will leave RAM unused that could have been used for running that process.
> Programs frequently request more memory than they actually need,
> accommodating these requests by providing a larger amount of memory (through
> virtual memory, even if you never intend the system to swap) allows you to
> run more software in the physical RAM you have available.

Uh-huh.

And tell me, do you have many multi-gigabyte processes running on your servers?

I don't.

The only servers I've deployed that do are VM hosts. And you know
what? VMware, for instance, doesn't support swapfiles or pagefiles.

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