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Also worth to note to those coming from Windows, if you're trying to prevent your OS from using the harddisk it's common practice under windows to disable the swapfile as it's used before the RAM is even near full. (Vista does handle this a lot better than XP)

You don't need to resort to this under openSUSE, it wont use the swapfile if it's not needed, so you have nothing to lose creating a swap partition (aside from 1GB (or whatever you set it to) diskspace.