Some applications will allocate large amounts of memory when they start,
even if they later don't need the memory. Rather than keep this in core it's
best to let the OS page this out and leave core memory to programs that
really need it. Restricting the size of your swap partition can limit the
OS's ability to do this.
Also, systems like FreeBSD have virtual memory systems that very much rely
on the amount of paging space being as large as or larger than core memory.
Anyway, with disks being so cheap I don't see a real issue anyway. :)
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