Originally Posted By: mlord
No problemo usually, even on 512MB machines.

My desktop machine has <512MB. frown

I do find swap useful particularly when my wife opens a ton of programs, and I need to get back to working on something else that's going to consume lots of RAM (say... photo editing), and I don't know if she's done with them. Minimize them, off they eventually go into swap.

IMHO, that's not a pattern that's going to change, regardless of how much RAM is installed in the system, so I'll probably always keep a swap partition around -- though I'm not going to follow that old Red Hat rule on sizing.