[Preston] Re: Installing Fedora Core 1

[David Farrell]

I ran gentoo on a system with 1Gig of ram for a while, and though I never
pushed it, it never touched the swap file. Even windows seems to play nice
with 1gig and no swap file!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "(BPD) Martyn Ashworth" <m.ashworth at bigpurpledot.co.uk>
To: "Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group" <preston at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Preston] Re: Installing Fedora Core 1


> Just a thought (or two):
>
> Is it program specific for SWAP, the only reason i ask is that i run
> 512Mb of RAM and when i occasionally check the /proc/meminfo i have
> around 80Mb of Physical RAM free, yet my swap can be at 50->200Mb. I
> just wondered if certain programmes can insist on swap rather than
> physical as they are not requiring the memory for speedy access (or
> other such trivial matters).
>
> Probably barking in the wrong forest but there we are.
>
> Martyn.
>
>
> Garry Taylor wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday 24 Mar 2004 11:06 am, Granville Cousins wrote:
> >
> >>Thanks for your help. What I needed to do was to create a SWAP
> >>partition before installing Fedora Core.
> >>
> >
> >This is really strange, I thought that swap space was not vital to the
> >operation of the OS, if you had enough RAM. Therfore you could simply,
not
> >have a swap partition.
> >
> >Prices of todays memory, who really needs swap. Good idea at the time but
> >obsolite now. I would rather have a message say "out of memory" than my
> >system grinding down to a hault.
> >
> >So should modern installers not test to see if the memory is enough to
bypass
> >the swap partition, and leave room for me to install more Open Source
> >goodies.
> >
> >Gizard
> >
> >
> >
> >
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