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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Grant<emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.