Using USB memory key as boot directory for older computer?
Luke-Jr
luke at dashjr.org
Thu Jun 28 16:25:20 CDT 2007
On Thursday 28 June 2007 13:01, Jon Pruente wrote:
> Nope. Swap is not needed. It can help, but I've run systems with
> 512MB-1GB of RAM with no swap, with no issues. It wasn't long ago that
> most systems had 256MB of swap+RAM total. Having actual RAM is better
> than swap. Swap is there to make up for not having enough physical
> RAM. RAM is cheap nowadays, so the need for swap is greatly reduced.
Not quite. No matter how much RAM you have, swap is still a good idea (though
of course not technically required). Some times it makes more sense for Linux
to swap out a program so it has more RAM to cache files in. If you have no
swap, it can't do that.
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