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[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

James Sumners wrote:
> Umm, I have gone completely WITHOUT a swap partition before and been
> just fine. Generally, you want at least as much swap space as you have
> RAM; but it is recommend to use twice as much swap as RAM. I used to
> say 128MB is enough (once you have exceeded that amount in RAM), but
> that was when hard drive space was a premium for me. Now, I use at
> least as much swap as RAM if not twice that much.

I never have my /swap over a gig.  I don't see any sense in it and have 
never had any problems with that.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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