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On Wednesday 26 May 2004 09:38, Anthony DiSante wrote: > As a general question about ram/swap and relating to some of the issues in > this thread: > > ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell > > Consider this: I have a desktop system with 256MB ram, so I make a 256MB > swap partition. So I have 512MB "memory" and if some process wants more, > too bad, there is no more. > > Now I buy another 256MB of ram, so I have 512MB of real memory. Why not > just disable my swap completely now? I won't have increased my memory's > size at all, but won't I have increased its performance lots? > > Or, to make it more appealing, say I initially had 512MB ram and now I have > 1GB. Wouldn't I much rather not use swap at all anymore, in this case, on > my desktop? Yes, you can run swapless. Nothing wrong with that. -- vda - 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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