How much swap?

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, ted leslie wrote:

> this was only to address the issue that maybe some kernels would object
> to the absence of swap, and this would trick it.
> if one is sure that turing vm off in their particular kernel version
> is ok, then yep, no point in doing below.

To the best of my knowledge Linux will run quite happily (although 
suboptimally) without swap, unlike some older versions of *nix which 
needed swap to avoid memory fragmentation.

I recommend always using swap for the performance enhancements it offers 
(see my earlier posts), not because the system needs it.

Cheers,

Rob

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