Installation?

[MR ZenWiz]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:54 PM, David Curtis <dave.c.curtis at gmail.com> wrote:
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> My assumption is that memory management needs swap to work properly.

Only if you need to do any swapping.  Memory management includes
swapping when there is a need to swap and a place to do it.  (If you
don't swap and you run out of memory, the system either hangs or
crashes.)

I haven't done any Linux kernel programming in a few years, but this
sort of concept rarely changes - it's been this way since the whole
concept of swapping was invented/discovered.

> To me it just seems to be common sense that if the system needs swap for a
> seldomly occuring situation (badly behaving process) you might as well put
> it in if it will help and incurr no apreciable resource penalty, but again
> I'm no kernel expert.
>
That's quite reasonable - in today's world, what's a few GB of swap
space out of 100s of GB per disk?