On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Marvin P. Dickens wrote: > (1) DISABLING SWAP SPACE > > Many programs run best without a swap space. With memory sizes increasing and hard >drives still rotating at the same rate they were spinning in 1998, swap spaces are >pointless (If you have the RAM... ). The question then is how to make Linux run >without a swap space since all distributions like to install them by default. (It's >funny.... I remember when the caldera disto installed a swap, but did not activate >it... The user community went nuts) Theoretically you should be able to do:
I beg to differ. AFAIK back in 1998 there were no drives in production that had 15k, or even 10k RPMs. Or are you ignoring the existence of SCSI drives? > Then recompile the kernel. As a side note, I know alot of people do not want to run >a system without a swap space. However, If you've got more than 750MB of ram in your >system the chances are you're never gonna use a swap space. All recent 2.4.x kernels consume physical memory before going to swap. That said, completely disabling swap sounds like a recipe for disaster, as the kernel will start randomly terminating processing that are fighting for memory that doesn't exist. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
