Messages in this thread | | | From | "Buddy Lumpkin" <> | Subject | RE: why swap at all? | Date | Wed, 26 May 2004 04:39:50 -0700 |
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Exactly ...
-----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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