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> why would you still need a swap partition? Because sometimes you (read applications) need to use all/most of your memory. Ability to swap out all the not be
by njharman 13y ago
> why would you still need a swap partition?
Because sometimes you (read applications) need to use all/most of your memory. Ability to swap out all the not being used memory to disk maximizes amount of memory available to applications.