Messages in this thread | | | From | Karl Vogel <> | Subject | RE: How do I make this thing stop laging? Reboot? Sounds like Windows! | Date | Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:56:28 +0200 |
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> > Swap prefetching? If you have >10% free physical ram and > any used swap it > > will start swapping pages back into physical ram. Probably > not of real > > benefit but many people like this idea. I have a soft spot > for it and like > > using it. > > -- > > > > The disadvantage is ofcourse that you will be using up more > RAM than is > > really necessary. > > No, free RAM is wasted RAM.
But the point is, it's not really free RAM. It's being used for I/O caching. So while swap prefetching might be suited for desktop systems, it certainly isn't for servers.
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