Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:56:59 -0500 | From | war <> | Subject | Re: Swap vs No Swap. |
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Thank you for understanding!
James A Sutherland wrote:
> On Thursday 22 November 2001 4:25 pm, war wrote: > > Why have SWAP if you don't need it - answer that.? > > Having it is supposed to improve performance. If you take two identical > machines, and enable swap on one but not the other, the first machine should > have better performance: it can cache the FS more effectively. > > Now, if you have INSANE amounts of RAM (i.e. enough to have everything > running in RAM *AND* every file you access cached) the swap will make no > difference at all. Under any other circumstances, it should make things > better. > > James. > - > 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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