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Re: P4 with 1GB RAM, swap required?



also sprach Lukas Ruf <ruf@rawip.org> [2002.10.28.1024 +0100]:
> is there any sense in putting a swap partition on a P4 with 1GB RAM?  

yes. but no more than 512 Mb!

> What would be the advantage if using swapd?

depends on your usage. my notebook has 1Gb of RAM and I do so much on
it that there's usually only 5% memory free

> Or can I do without swap partitions at all?

you can try. YMMV

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