[LUAU] Running a standard distro without swap space

[Vince Hoang]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 02:34:19PM -1000, Charles Lockhart wrote:
> Any ideas on how well a machine running a popular distribution of Linux 
> (RH, FCx, Mandrake, Debian, etc) would do if the machine had no swap 
> partition?  Anybody actually do it?  If so, how well did work?

Turn off swap and stress test it. If your appliance holds up, you
should be able to go without it.

Not having swap is better than creating a RAM disk for your swap
partition. :)

-Vince