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My .02 quatloos about swap is: Swap is what you use when you don't have any other place to put it. Old SunOS requested 2x swap, and would not work without at least 1x memory available in swap. Coherent (a *NIX clone from Mark Williams Co) was a real memory only system. It was fast and good on low memory machines. You just don't run 'no stinkin gui'. I think the didn't put virtual memory into their system, so as Linux and the *BSDs came out, it went away (in addition to internal problems in the company). I like swap, but like most folks now days, I try not to use it. Given the price of memory is pretty low at this point, swap is good if I inadvertantly run something to large to fit in ram. -- Member/Associate of HLUG, HAL-PC, ACM, /., USENIX, ADSM.ORG, BCUMC, SBIB and other various random initials and anacronyms.
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