Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:00:15 -0500 | From | war <> | Subject | Re: Swap vs No Swap. |
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Incorrect, my point is I have enough ram where I am not going to run out for the things I do.
Using swap simply slows the system down!
James A Sutherland wrote:
> On Thursday 22 November 2001 1:53 am, war wrote: > > I do not understand something. > > > > How can having swap speed ANYTHING up? > > By providing ADDITIONAL storage. Yes, it's slower than RAM - but it's faster > than not having the storage at all. > > > RAM = 1000MB/s. > > DISK = 10MB/s > > > > Ram is generally 1000x faster than a hard disk. > > > > No swap = fastest possible solution. > > BS. You don't use swap INSTEAD of RAM, but AS WELL AS. Moving less frequently > used data to swap allows you to put more frequently used data in RAM, which > DOES speed things up. (At least, it does if the VM system works properly :P) > > By your logic, we should switch off the system RAM, too: after all, L2 cache > is much faster again, so using RAM can only slow things down? > > James. > - > 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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