Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 00:30:41 -0500 | From | war <> | Subject | Re: Swap vs No Swap. |
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Yeah, but when the disk starts swapping the system slows down to a halt.
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> Followup to: <3BFC5A9B.915B77DF@starband.net> > By author: war <war@starband.net> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > I do not understand something. > > > > How can having swap speed ANYTHING up? > > > > By allowing RAM to be better utilized. > > -hpa > -- > <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! > "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." > http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt <amsp@zytor.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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