Messages in this thread | | | From | James A Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: Swap vs No Swap. | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:41:48 +0000 |
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On Thursday 22 November 2001 4:36 pm, war wrote: > The bottom line here is: > > There is no need for swap if you have enough ram. > Using swap with more than enough ram does absolutley nothing for the > system, except by degrading the performance of it.
If the system has so much RAM that EVERYTHING fits in RAM - programs, data and FS cache - then the swap won't be touched anyway, and makes no difference. This is rather unlikely on a PC; in practice, adding swap should always improve matters. (Of course, the VM isn't perfect yet...)
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