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On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, war wrote: > I do not understand something. > How can having swap speed ANYTHING up? > > RAM = 1000MB/s. > DISK = 10MB/s > > Ram is generally 1000x faster than a hard disk. This also means that the the caching of files from your filesystem (say, /usr/bin/netscape or /lib/libc.so) is 1000x faster than reading them from disk. > No swap = fastest possible solution. Not true if having no swap means you do not have enough memory to cache /lib/libc.so ;) regards, Rik -- Shortwave goes a long way: irc.starchat.net #swl http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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