Using USB memory key as boot directory for older computer?

[Luke-Jr]

On Thursday 28 June 2007 13:01, Jon Pruente wrote:
> Nope.  Swap is not needed.  It can help, but I've run systems with
> 512MB-1GB of RAM with no swap, with no issues. It wasn't long ago that
> most systems had 256MB of swap+RAM total.  Having actual RAM is better
> than swap.  Swap is there to make up for not having enough physical
> RAM.  RAM is cheap nowadays, so the need for swap is greatly reduced.

Not quite. No matter how much RAM you have, swap is still a good idea (though 
of course not technically required). Some times it makes more sense for Linux 
to swap out a program so it has more RAM to cache files in. If you have no 
swap, it can't do that.