Re: running Linux with no swap space (but lots of RAM)

On Oct 15, 2:11 am, Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Shorter: As long as you have enough RAM, configuring some part of your
disk(s) for paging will have no effect (except using diskspace). If
you ever run out of RAM, not doing so will cause a malfunction with
arbitrary consequences, in-kernel memory corruption being among them.

And this is a risk with no gain.

What if your computer uses flash memory instead of a hard drive to
boot? Typically flash memory in those cheap USB2.0 memory sticks have
a limited number of writes before failure. Thus it is not about saving
hard drive space, but about not having to buy more memory sticks when
your current one fails because of excessive SWAP writes. This
circumstance is a very good reason to not have SWAP, especially when
you have enough system memory.
.

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