In <631fe46c0907271347g341e048udf74d5ee643e1...@mail.gmail.com>, Mark wrote: >A couple of questions (background is below the questions if you want to >read): > >Question 1: In the Debian manual it says a swap partition isn't needed but >recommended for efficiency. Anyone else installed without swap and had >success?
>Is my installation a ticking time bomb if I don't have a swap >partition? Usually, no. Either the OOM killer will kick in or malloc/calloc/realloc will start failing earlier, so you might want to add swap if either of those happens. You'll get OOM messages in /var/log/messages; applications will either crash or notify you they are out of memory if malloc/calloc/realloc fails. You can use a swap file instead of a swap partition/disk. Just create a file of the appropriate size with dd, use mkfs.swap on it, and add it to your fstab. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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