On 08/18/2010 04:00 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap
partition set up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for
hibernation, but this server does not need to hibernate.
Depends on the purpose of the machine. Desktops often don't. If your
system is dedicated to running a single very large application, it is.
Although processes under Linux get a COW image of their parent's memory
at the time they fork(), the default configuration requires that there
is at least enough memory for a copy.