Re: No swap on my Debian Sid system

[Adam Skutt <askutt@wnec.edu>]

Emmanuel Fleury wrote:

> If you have one giga of RAM why would you care about having swap ? :)
You should always have swap.  Not having swap artificially constrains 
the VM from making the best decisions for your current usage.

> Most of the current applications are designed to fit in 512Mo of RAM 
Utter nonsense.  Where do you get the idea generalities like this are 
even remotely valid?

> and
> they probably don't use yet the 64bits-span memory allocation that your
> processor can do. So... ;-)
Actually, the entire presence of this list and the Debian/amd64 
distribution would suggest that they can.

Adam