Linux without swap

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 22:45 -0700, Stephen wrote:
> I understand that swap is not as critical anymore with machines now
> having 2, 4, and even larger amounts of Ram available. but aside from
> being able to allow a more graceful recovery of a runaway process. how
> needed is swap in a desktop machine?
> 
> reason i ask is I'm getting ready to try and cram a 3rd partition on a
> macbook pro and the EFI boot schema it has can only deal with 4
> partitions, but mac OSX has 2 of those and i have XP Pro in there as
> well. and if i include swap space i will be at 5 not the limit of 4.
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swap can be a file on a regular filesystem instead of just a partition.
see the man page on mkswap or swapon

also - FWIW - EFI might only see 4 partitions but my experience with
Macs on OSX is that there are more partitions than you actually see with
standard Mac tools.

Craig