Linux without swap

[Stephen]

this is interesting to know.

ill have to do some reading on this.

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Charles Jones
<charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> 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 <cryptworks at gmail.com> 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
>
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-- 
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