Messages in this thread | | | From | Ed Tomlinson <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window) | Date | Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:15:04 -0500 |
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On Sunday 06 November 2011 17:32:54 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > 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.
I've got three boxes with this problem here. Hense my support for frontswap/cleancache.
Ed
> > 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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