Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window) | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:32:54 -0500 |
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:28 EDT, John Stoffel said: > Dan> "WHY" this is such a good idea is the same as WHY it is useful to > Dan> add RAM to your systems. > > So why would I use this instead of increasing the physical RAM?
You're welcome to buy me a new laptop that has a third DIMM slot. :)
There's a lot of people running hardware that already has the max amount of supported RAM, and who for budget or legacy-support reasons can't easily do a forklift upgrade to a new machine.
> if I've got a large system which cannot physically use any more > memory, then it might be worth my while to use TMEM to get more > performance out of this expensive hardware.
It's not always a large system.... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |