Re: running without a swap partition
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:53:08AM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Christian DeKonink <chrisd@sendmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Can debian be run without a swap partition?
>
> Sure can. It's sensible to provide some sort of swap capability if you
> can -- otherwise you can get into a position where Linux will be unable
> to do /anything/ because it ran out of memory. It does not cope well
> with this (relatively speaking).
Moreover if the RAM you have is sufficent for your needs, then in some cases
you may notice that a system without swap is faster than the one with swap.
I had noticed it once on my old desktop p133/8MB RAM.
I do not know Linux's memory management well enough to say how it copes with
too little memory, but what i think increases the speed is that when it runs
short on memory it just squeezes somehow prosesses' needs for memory instead
of swapping them out.
regards
Marcin
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