Early 2.4 required it due to a flawed design decision in the VM, that is
fixed in the rmap VM at least and I think in the base VM by 2.4.18
> If 16 gb is not enough for you, estimate how much mem all your apps and
> daemons will need in a worst case, then use:
>
> swap = total_needed_worst_case - ram
Not quite remember its (ram - whatever the kernel needs). Its quite
feasible to run with no swap. With current -ac trees (latest 19pre3-ac
series) you can check /proc/meminfo and Committed_AS is your worst case
swap usage assuming the kernel ate all of RAM.
Alan
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