Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:01:19 -0500 | From | war <> | Subject | Re: Swap vs No Swap. |
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Once again, I have enough ram where I am not going to run out for the things I do. I never need swap.
When the system swaps, it slows down the system responsiveness big time.
Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 22 November 2001 02:53 schrieb war: > > 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. > > > > No swap = fastest possible solution. > > At some point you will run out of ram. Then you have to start paging. The > only question there is whether you page only mmaped files including program > code or whether you also write out program data. > > HTH > Oliver
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