> [..] >> I think if you have 4GB of RAM you shouldn't need any swap under >> normal circumstances. I have a gentoo box with just 256MB of RAM >> that's running web server (apache + php), mail server (postfix + >> dovecot), and database (mariadb), and it works fine if i disable swap. >> I do normally have swap enabled on it, though, because emerging >> sometimes uses a lot of RAM. >> > > Indeed, I have a server with 256MB of memory and it couldn't emerge > gcc when I had swap disabled.
I can't compile openoffice with -j1 on 3GB RAM and no swap. - Grant
