Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:22:35 +0100 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: Swap vs No Swap. |
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:11:29 -0000 "Elgar, Jeremy" <JElgar@ndsuk.com> wrote:
> Hum think I'm going to test this idea out tonight, quick question without > swap at what point would the kernel stop giving memory up for cache > purposes. For example I noticed on Tuesday whist doing a back up of a file > system (in-line tar cd untar) I was left with ~4 Mb left having nearly the > rest of my 2Gb Ram used for cache. > > Would this ram be given back to the free pool much more readily?
Not to my knowledge. Since I was pretty much bitten by swap in former days I plugged in more RAM and stopped swap completely. I must admit that it didn't get any faster, but trashing is gone (obviously). But this is only because of my own dumbness placing swap on the same drive as root-fs. I guess it would be a good idea to use the former small hds (1-2 GB) for swap completely, so any bad interaction with normal fs is omitted. BTW maybe you should try the latest preX versions, they tend to have more _free_ mem available and perform pretty ok on my system.
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