Don MacAskill talked about swap in one of his blog posts http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/05/01/mysql-and-the-linux-swap-problem/
I try to keep swap to a minimum but I always keep a small partition, say 256mb for swap. There isn't really anything wrong with swapping and as long as vmstat isn't showing a lot of swap action going on its fine. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]>wrote: > That's another big question of mine... let's say a system with 3GB of > DDR2-667 RAM, even some DDR-400, why would someone need a swap partition, > considering that the normal use doesn't fill up the RAM? I've looked into > this and found no definitive answer, some people say you need swap, some say > you don't. > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Randall Whitman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> > I am going to partition a 40 gig drive on a presario laptop. >> > I want to make the first 10 gigs ntfs for windows os >> > and the second 10 gigs ext3 for ubuntu os >> > and the 3rd 20 gig partition for data. >> >> In addition to system and data partitions, >> I always make a swap partition. >> /Randall >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > -- Peter Manis (678) 269-7979
