On 8/18/10, James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>I'm not sure what you mean by "need", but Fedora will run without a >>swap partition. >> > It will, that is true, but from my UNIX training, it is always a good idea > to have a swap partition, but you don't have to follow the 2x rule. 500MB Not if all you have is a 4G SSD (and 2G RAM)... Never say 'always', I guess :-) > or maybe even 250MB will do. Check it with the swap command, and if no > space is ever used, then you can remove it and reclaim the space. Never say > "swap is not needed". I've seen systems with 32 GB of available ram use > swap. Of course! No amount of memory is too much, especially on a server where you might want an in-memory database or something. Andras -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
