Why then does redhat make me have it? Does getting a segmentation fault when running a little program necessarily mean I should try it or disable it, maybe that's why I get it once in awhile, and it is on. I actually got the ram to increase windows performance, since I still am stuck dual booting, but wish I'd have waited until now, probably cheaper than when I first got the machine with it. At 12:05 AM 10/22/01 -0400, you wrote: >On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: >> > /dev/hdb2, a swap partition I didn't want to install, but the system >> > wouldn't let me go without it. >> You want it. I promise. > >Why? If someone has a system that doesn't run a lot of tasks but they >have 256 mb of memory or above I don't see a reason for it. With the >price of 256mb ddr and sdram being around $30 to $45 US there's no real >reason why a lot of people should have to be using swap. Especially with >the state the vm system has been in in kernel releases 2.4.7 to 2.4.9. We >are still feeling the effects in 2.4.10 and 2.4.12 a little. Things just >swap out and they stay there. There's one really easy way to make sure >they don't swap out. Don't use swap! > >-- > Frank Carmickle >phone: 412 761-9568 >email: frankiec@dryrose.com > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >