2009/7/3 MontyRee <chulmin2 at hotmail.com> > Hello, all. > > I know the function of the swap and can make swap partion or file. > > But, if there is no swap partion at system, what would be happen? > that makes the system unstable or not? > > I have one system that has no swap, but there was no problem until now. > > > Thanks in advance. > > > ------------------------------ > The swap file is there to provide extra memory when the physical RAM runs out. But if you have a lot (say 4GB+) ram in your machine, you may not even necessarily use swap. So, getting back to your question, it wont' cause problems - unless you run programs which consume more resources than the physical RAM in the PC. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090703/5ad071e1/attachment-0005.html>