this is interesting to know. ill have to do some reading on this. On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Charles Jones wrote: > You don't have to use a swap *partition*. You can use a swap *file*. Just dd > some space from /dev/zero to a file like /swapfile and then use mkswap on > the file. Then you can activate it with the "swapon" command. > > > Kenny McHenry wrote: > > From what I have heard swap space isn't necessary like you were saying. In > netbooks they aren't using swap space, because it reduces the strain put on > the solid state harddrives that have a finite number of read/writes before > they go bad. I'd say that as long as you have enough memory in your computer > you would be perfectly fine with running without swap. > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:45 PM, 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. >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss