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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 - 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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