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From: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Kernel memory leak in 8.2-PRERELEASE?
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> Adding some swap would help a lot more.

So, I run a lot of systems without swap - basically my
thinking at the time I set them up went like this.

"I have 4 gig of memory, and 4 gig of swap. Surely running 8 gig of
memory and no swap will be just as good ?"

but, is that actually true ? Is real RAM as good as an equivalent amount
of swap, or is there smething special about swap which means you shoud
have some no matter how much RAM you have ?

-pete.