sounder 8, JS on Swap

[John]

Colin Watson wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 05:59:48PM +0800, John wrote:
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>>The S8 install is in progress, and I wish to comment on swap partitions.
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>>I tried without success to perusade the d-i folk that on most peecess 
>>(and like Macs and such) where the OS is being installed on a single 
>>disk, that a swap partition is a bad idea.
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>>Rather than repeat my argument here, see:
>>http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/08/msg00016.html
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>>No, I've not done benchmarks. It seems so clear to me I wonder that 
>>anyone would challenge my argument in that manner.
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>Swap partitions aren't there for speed reasons. They're there because if
>you don't have swap then the amount of RAM you have is a hard limit on
>what you can do, rather than a soft limit; not everybody can
>conveniently add more memory, even if they should, and "out of memory"
>is a very stark error message.
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>Moreover, if you have no swap then you can't leave other programs loaded
>when one program's working set is close to the amount of RAM you have.
>In that case, in fact, having other programs swapped out is not going to
>be much of a performance hit (those pages aren't currently being used,
>so why would it be?).
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>This is a sensible default. As ever with sensible defaults, some people
>have their own reasons for wanting something different; they can always
>use the manual partitioning option and do something else.
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>Cheers,
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Where did I say "no swap?"