So, if I have a system that’s running the most barebones, slimmest, text-only install of openSuse 11.4-64 via the “text only” option from the installer menu, should I really need a swap partition if I have 8GB or 16GB of ram? Keep in mind, I only use this computer to run one program. The highest memory footprint I’ve ever seen it use was 1.27GB, and even that was like watching Free-Willy do that huge jump out of the water. It might never use that much ram again. So, just in my case, for my one program, on my system loaded up with ram, what purpose could a swap partition serve?
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