Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 16 Jun 1996 23:47:52 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.1 wishlist... |
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On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Actually, I'd like to see this as an option for ALL filesystems, > > not just NFS. I'm not convinced that always rereading a page > > from the original binary is faster than paging out to a dedicated > > swap partition. Less seeks, more potential use of clustering, > > It will really depend on the system, the disk layout, having swap on different > disks. It should be generic however as there are at least two obvious uses and > Im sure Sct intends to do it generically anyway as its also easier > > [the other use is running binaries off CD] >
That's one reason, although two examples, swaping binaries that live on slow media.
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