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-----Original Message-----
From: John Bradford [mailto:john@grabjohn.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:35 AM
To: Nick Piggin; Buddy Lumpkin
Cc: 'William Lee Irwin III'; orders@nodivisions.com;
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why swap at all?

Quote from Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>:
> Even for systems that don't *need* the extra memory space, swap can
> actually provide performance improvements by allowing unused memory
> to be replaced with often-used memory.

That's true, but it's not a magical property of swap space - extra physical
RAM would do more or less the same thing.

John.

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