Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2004 01:32:06 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: why swap at all? |
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:34:01AM +0100, John Bradford wrote: > Sure, but tell me, for example, what is the point of having swap on a system > like this: > $ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 516688 19900 496788 0 628 11276 > -/+ buffers/cache: 7996 508692 > Swap: 0 0 0
So you can move userspace pages out of ZONE_DMA as-needed.
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