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by AA » Thu, 22 Apr 1999 04:00:00

During a meeting I told me to replace one of the older LINUX servers.
My question during install I read that the swap part. is not needed when
the memory is higher then 32 meg. Myth or Fact?

Peace

AA

by **Matthew Pritzke** » Fri, 23 Apr 1999 04:00:00

> During a meeting I told me to replace one of the older LINUX servers.
> My question during install I read that the swap part. is not needed when
> the memory is higher then 32 meg. Myth or Fact?

Swap is only unneeded if you are 100% sure you will not need more memory
than what is physically present. About the only time this is true is
when you doing installation or some kind of single-user mode thing (eg,
maintenance).

32MB is really not very much on a PPC system; the rule I have always
heard is that swap should double the size of real memory.

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