Swap partition

From: Sanglo Lee (leesl_at_cbnu.edu)
Date: 08/28/03 

Date: 28 Aug 2003 09:47:53 -0700

Today, I installed a redhat 7.3 version on the machine which has 4giga ram.
Do I still need to make a swap partition? If I disabled a swap partition
is it hurt the performance or gain more speedup?

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