Re: why swap at all?

[Raphael Jacquot]

Anthony DiSante wrote:
> Or, to make it more appealing, say I initially had 512MB ram and now I 
> have 1GB.  Wouldn't I much rather not use swap at all anymore, in this 
> case, on my desktop?

I do that on embedded systems. no swap. when there's no more, the 
oomkiller kicks in and removes a few extraneous processes...

> -Anthony
> http://nodivisions.com/

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