Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:05:32 -0500 From: Mikel King <mikel.king@olivent.com> To: anthony.rasat@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To swap or not to swap Message-ID: <990F83AE-AA60-454A-A456-7D91C0BE6D6A@olivent.com> In-Reply-To: <1822530854-1228237014-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-916388807-@bxe1001.bisx.prodap.on.blackberry> References: <1822530854-1228237014-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-916388807-@bxe1001.bisx.prodap.on.blackberry>
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On Dec 2, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Anthony M. Rasat wrote: > Fellas, I need opinions. Asus Eee PC, SSD storage, 512MB RAM, with > GNOME and other desktop thingy (testing out of curiousity). > > Question is, swap or no swap? Remember, this is SSD, it is > reasonable to have no swap. However, what if I wanted OpenOffice? > This beast is memory hog AFAIK. Thanks for opinions. > > -- Anthony, SSD or no, I feel that you should treat it as you would any other hard disk. Plan for a swap space, albeit a smaller one than you would normally allocate perhaps. Cheers, Mikel
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