Swap partition size for a 4GB RAM system?

It has a 32-bit CPU (3GHz P4 with HyperThreading) and 4GB RAM.

Does it make sense at all to have a swap partition when I have so much
RAM?

I am intending use it for a VMWare workstation, using Ubuntu 6.0.6 as
the host OS.

Thanks!
Lynn

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