Messages in this thread |  | | From | James A Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: Swap vs No Swap. | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:12:32 +0000 |
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On Thursday 22 November 2001 4:01 pm, war wrote: > 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.
"when it swaps" is meaningless: Linux ALWAYS swaps when there is swapspace. Do you mean when it *thrashes*? Or does your system have problems during I/O such as not using DMA for disk access?
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