Swap partition or no swap partition?

I have Ubuntu running on my AA1 with 8 GB SSD and 512 RAM
I just read these guidelines on the Arch Linux on AA1 site and this cite caught my attention:

At this moment I have a swap partition double the size of my RAM, so what's the best thing to do?

 

I don't think a swap partition will be a problem for the SSD, it isn't used much anyway and what is swapped out will likely stay there a while (at least it does in my case). However the SSD write speeds are very slow so if your AA1 needs more than say 200-300MB swap it will probably get really slow, so while it may be beneficial to have a bit of swap having twice the RAM is excessive.

 

512 MB ram here, not using swap, working fine so far.

 

I ran 512MB with no swap for a week or so while waiting for my 1G memory upgrade with no problems.

 

Ok, tnx for the input ... I'm installing onelinux without swap partition right at this moment.

 

If you ever find that you do need a swap partition, you can use gparted (the ubuntu partition manager) to shrink your root partition and add one after the fact.

 

I'm running with a 2GiBswap, 120GiB hd, 1gb ram, and I've never actually seen the swap go above 0 of 2GiB mark. My ram usage rarely goes above 400 mb considering the minimal number of programs I run all the time (firefox, OOWriter, Evolution Mail, Pidgin, fire.fm ff addon constantly streaming). I truly doubt you'd run into any issues running without a swap partition. This isn't Windows where lack of a paging file will send you back 5 or 10 years...
(Not meant to disparage Windows, I use both interchangeably, it's just a simple truth)