So the morel of the story is ( as per my understanding .... forgive me if I miss understood. ),The regular day-to-day working desktop OS doesn't need the swap space (especially if it is having more then or equal 4GB RAM ) , Mission Critical Server must have swap space even-though it is having 32GB RAM . which are running large database or something like that isn't it ???? Regards -- °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Jatin Khatri Registerd Linux user No #501175 www.counter.li.org No M$ On Thursday 19 August 2010 05:23 AM, Gregory Hosler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/18/2010 07:00 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> I'll probably have a new server with 16 gigs of RAM on the way, soon. >> >> With this amount of RAM being sufficient, do I really need a swap partition set >> up? I do understand that a swap partition is needed for hibernation, but this >> server does not need to hibernate. >> > -- 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