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On Apr 10, 2006, at 21:45, Pete Slagle wrote:

> When you have more than enough RAM you don't need any swap space at  
> all.

You need enough swap space to do a dump in case a panic occurs.

While panics are (hopefully) rare, if it does happen, you usually  
want things set up so that you can figure out /why/ the panic occurred.