From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:12:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10907300912o4e8f9fa7sb6630e4acdea964a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0907300907r7a00a998v4a212067d600b2d9@mail.gmail.com>
>>>> I read on this list that the kernel needs *some* swap, even just a
>>>> tiny amount, to function properly. Is that true? If so, do you think
>>>> it would be OK to put this tiny amount of swap on a cheap SSD?
>>>
>>> I have no swap and things work just fine. (8 gigs of RAM)
>>>
>>> Obviously, running without swap increases the chances of you running
>>> out of memory, but that has never happened to me.
>>
>> I've been setting up all of my systems according to this, creating a
>> 512MB swap partition:
>>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=4
>>
>> If I have 4GB RAM, all I'm accomplishing with swap is increasing this
>> to 4.5GB? If my system requires 4.6GB at some point, I'm in the same
>> position I would be in if I had no swap and 4.1GB requirement?
>
> As far as I understand it, correct.
Alright, I'm off swap for good then. I love simplification.
- Grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-30 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-26 10:46 [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1? Grant
2009-07-26 16:04 ` Stroller
2009-07-27 12:44 ` Grant
2009-07-27 17:43 ` Florian Philipp
2009-07-27 18:33 ` Florian Philipp
2009-07-27 18:42 ` James Ausmus
2009-07-28 17:52 ` Grant
2009-07-28 19:01 ` Stroller
2009-07-29 15:20 ` Grant
2009-07-29 17:25 ` Florian Philipp
2009-07-30 12:17 ` Grant
2009-07-30 12:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-30 13:00 ` Grant
2009-07-30 13:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-30 13:47 ` Grant
2009-07-30 14:05 ` Alex Schuster
2009-07-30 15:45 ` Grant
2009-07-30 15:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-30 14:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-30 15:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-30 15:20 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-07-30 13:10 ` Alex Schuster
2009-07-30 14:18 ` Paul Hartman
2009-07-30 16:03 ` Grant
2009-07-30 16:07 ` Paul Hartman
2009-07-30 16:12 ` Grant [this message]
2009-07-31 16:07 ` Grant
2009-07-29 18:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-30 11:41 ` Stroller
2009-07-31 17:31 ` Grant
2009-08-03 16:00 ` Grant
2009-07-30 12:53 ` Grant
2009-07-30 11:46 ` Stroller
2009-07-29 8:12 ` Nevynxxx
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