| Date | Wed, 26 May 2004 02:38:23 -0400 | From | Anthony DiSante <> | Subject | why swap at all? |
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As a general question about ram/swap and relating to some of the issues in this thread:
~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell
Consider this: I have a desktop system with 256MB ram, so I make a 256MB swap partition. So I have 512MB "memory" and if some process wants more, too bad, there is no more.
Now I buy another 256MB of ram, so I have 512MB of real memory. Why not just disable my swap completely now? I won't have increased my memory's size at all, but won't I have increased its performance lots?
Or, to make it more appealing, say I initially had 512MB ram and now I have 1GB. Wouldn't I much rather not use swap at all anymore, in this case, on my desktop?
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