Oficially it doesnt NEED it, but it can greatly improve the stability of a system and some smoothness of havy applications or anything that was super clean in its memory allocation. In a desktop its not an issue, but also not something i would do on anything with less than 4g of ram. in a server i would never not use swap. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:07 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote: >>> swap is generally not needed > This doesn't correlate with my experience... > But then again, my experience can be wrong.    :) > > What I (believe to) have seen however, is that Linux wants swap no matter > what. > > I also tend to abuse the memory though. > > Is there an "official" answer for the question "Does a Linux computer need > swap?" > ET > > PS: Yo initialize a swap partition with mkswap. > > > > > Stephen writes: > >> I have run Linux desktops without swap and most of the time it was >> just fine (it had a large amount of ram so i don't think it cared. >> >> but what i understood of the issue now given the large amount of cheap >> ram swap is generally not needed unless a program needs it for a >> graceful moment >> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Alex Dean wrote: >>> >>> On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:40 AM, Marco Savo wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> I have a *simple* question: >>>> it is possible use a FLASH drive as SWAP? >>> >>> Probably, but why would you want to?  For a normal desktop or server, I see >>> a lot of disadvantages and no advantages over putting swap on a regular HDD. >>>  Post up your specific reason for being interested in the question, and we >>> can probably provide better advice.  If you really just want to know 'can it >>> be done', I think the answer is "yes, but don't do it". >>> >>>> and which is the best filesistem to use then? >>>> (UBIFS? EXT4?...) >>> >>> A swap partition is its own kind thing.  It doesn't have a normal >>> filesystem. >>> >>> alex >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 > --------------------------------------------------- > 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