[PLUG] Swap or Not?

[Paul Johnson]

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:08:41PM -0800, Paul Mullen wrote:
> What is the general consensus [1] regarding the use of a swap partition
> on a system with "plenty" of RAM?

Because if something goes wrong and springs a bad but slow memory leak, the
swap might be what saves your ass (though if it's a sudden, severe
memory leak, Sysrq-s sysrq-u sysrq-b is likely your only hope).

> My daily driver has 512 MB of RAM, and I've never bothered to set up
> a swap partition for it. So far, I don't seem to lack anything in
> the performance department, but then I have nothing to compare
> to. Am I missing something here?

Probably not if you're not getting out-of-memory errors.

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