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    SubjectRe: why swap at all?
    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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