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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window)
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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....
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