[nzlug] Acer/DSE option

[Cliff Pratt]

Robin wrote:
> 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).
> 
On the evidence of my swap figures, that is not true. Depends what you 
mean by 'significant' though.

I've (accidentally) run systems without swap and not noticed for a while.

I like the safety net of a bit of swap, and that is why I have it. I 
usually have 2GB no matter how much RAM the machine has.

Cheers,

Cliff