Rick Thomas wrote: > Another use for a large swap partition is if you want to put /tmp > into tmpfs. Yes. The new trend for tmpfs /tmp partitions is going to require a lot of thinking and rethinking for how much swap is required. Or also swap is useful if you have an enterprise server and have disabled Linux memory overcommit for reliability. I have posted about this problem before. Here are a couple of them: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/08/msg00022.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/04/msg02554.html > Whether doing so is a "good thing(TM)" is a religious debate that I > don't want to stir up here. But there are people who do it, and for > them a large swap partition can be useful. Agreed. Very strongly! Bob
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