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> > Swap prefetching? If you have >10% free physical ram and > any used swap it > > will start swapping pages back into physical ram. Probably > not of real > > benefit but many people like this idea. I have a soft spot > for it and like > > using it. > > -- > > > > The disadvantage is ofcourse that you will be using up more > RAM than is > > really necessary. > > No, free RAM is wasted RAM. But the point is, it's not really free RAM. It's being used for I/O caching. So while swap prefetching might be suited for desktop systems, it certainly isn't for servers. - 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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