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   Bobbie Sellers to Marco Moock   
   Re: Swap file   
   17 Jul 22 12:43:14   
   
   From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 7/17/22 12:12, Marco Moock wrote:   
   > Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2022, um 18:38:00 Uhr schrieb Albert Arkwright:   
   >   
   >> Do you see any reason to create a swap file on a system with 24GB ram   
   >> and 200 GB disk space?   
   >   
   > In case the RAM is full, no application needs to be stopped.   
   > But I also run Linux without swap on many machines with enough RAM -   
   > no problems yet because I never used the entire RAM.   
   >   
      
   So it depends on how hard you are going to be using the machine.  If   
   your programs and data are large enough to use up the RAM memory then   
   you might want to create a similar sized swap so that you don't lose   
   anything if some one sends you something bulky.   
      
   	Previous owner of very bulky files in the days when 32 Megabytes   
   was a large memory.   
      
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