Back in the day, when memory was expensive, the general advice was to have a swap partition on your UN*X box that was about four times the size of your physical memory. Now, if you do a default install of any mainstream #Linux distribution, you get a swap partition, but it's of trivial size.

What's the rationale for this? What's the point of even having a swap partition if it doesn't allow you more virtual memory than physical memory?

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@simon_brooke swapping idle programs to disk gives more RAM for I/O cache for the active one.

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