Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 06:50:38 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Swap vs No Swap. |
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, war wrote:
> I do not understand something. > How can having swap speed ANYTHING up? > > RAM = 1000MB/s. > DISK = 10MB/s > > Ram is generally 1000x faster than a hard disk.
This also means that the the caching of files from your filesystem (say, /usr/bin/netscape or /lib/libc.so) is 1000x faster than reading them from disk.
> No swap = fastest possible solution.
Not true if having no swap means you do not have enough memory to cache /lib/libc.so ;)
regards,
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