[mythtv-users] Draft revisions to HowTo section 3.3, second try

[Ben Bucksch]

Bruce Markey wrote:

> Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
>> For that reason, a swap partition is effectively useless.
>
> [The last sentence is unnecessary and misleading. This
> shouldn't imply that you should not have a swap partition.
> If anything, maybe:]
>
>   You will want to have enough RAM so that memory paging
>   will not impact your system performance.

Personally, I really prefer not to have any swap partition. Swap is a 
total perf killer (given today's RAM prices) and only hides problems. 
I'd rather have a mythfilldatabase process die because of too little RAM 
(this did happen here with 128 MB) than to have it cause swapping, which 
might bring down a recording in process.