Re: No swap on my Debian Sid system

[Emmanuel Fleury <emmanuel.fleury@labri.fr>]

Jack Malmostoso wrote:
> Hello there list,
> 
> I have noticed today that my AMD64 box has no swap!
> I set it up during the installation as the /dev/md1 RAID-1 device, but
> today I found out in free that swap=0:
> 
> nostromo:~# free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          1003        456        547          0         17        235
> -/+ buffers/cache:        203        800
> Swap:            0          0          0
> 
> So I tried to set it up manually:

If you have one giga of RAM why would you care about having swap ? :)

Most of the current applications are designed to fit in 512Mo of RAM and
they probably don't use yet the 64bits-span memory allocation that your
processor can do. So... ;-)

Regards
-- 
Emmanuel Fleury

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