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FromJames A Sutherland <>
SubjectRe: Swap vs No Swap.
DateThu, 22 Nov 2001 16:12:32 +0000
On Thursday 22 November 2001 4:01 pm, war wrote:
> Once again, I have enough ram where I am not going to run out for the
> things I do.> I never need swap.>> When the system swaps, it slows down the system responsiveness big time.

"when it swaps" is meaningless: Linux ALWAYS swaps when there is swapspace. 
Do you mean when it *thrashes*? Or does your system have problems during I/O 
such as not using DMA for disk access?


James.
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