Number 1:
My understanding is that swap space will be useful even in high amounts of 
ram, because buffers almost never used will land there.
It may not be a great help, but you apparently have more changes of being 
hurt without swap. 

Number 2:
Use "Logical" partitions, and now you can bump the total to 16:
4 "Real" partitions and
4 "Logical" partitions per physical partition.
YMMV...   :)
ET 

 

 

 


Stephen writes: 

> 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
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