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    FromRyan Cumming <>
    SubjectRe: Swap vs No Swap.
    DateThu, 22 Nov 2001 08:37:18 -0800
    On November 22, 2001 08:25, war wrote:
    > Why have SWAP if you don't need it - answer that.?
    
    > > 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)
    
    Are you even reading what they're saying? Having swap lets you move less 
    frequently used data to disk in favour of having more frequently used data in 
    RAM. 
    
    Personally, I have more than enough RAM to run a fairly busy KDE2 desktop, 
    and still have over 128megs in disk cache. And I still run with swap. The VM 
    seems to find about 40megs of data I'm -simply not using-, and it now has the 
    freedom to push that to swap so it can cache things that I -do use-. Although 
    the more RAM you have, the less significant the results are, you'll find that 
    in normal desktop/workstation/server use, the kernel will -always- find 
    something to swap out to give itself more cache, and more cache is a very 
    good thing. It's not fucking rocket science.
    
    -Ryan
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