[nzlug] Acer/DSE option

[Robin]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> I'd go for 256MB tops swap, or even live dangerously with none at all!

You waste performance by not having swap. Significant chunks of the system are 
likely mostly unused once they've loaded, and the OS can swap them out. This 
gives you more space for disk cache and so forth. Also, hibernate requires 
swap (which is something I'd forgotten about because I rarely use it).

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