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SubjectRE: How do I make this thing stop laging? Reboot? Sounds like Windows!
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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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