From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
To: davids@webmaster.com
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why swap at all? (what the user feels)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:01:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200406012101.40302.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKKEGNMFAA.davids@webmaster.com>
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 20.01, David Schwartz wrote:
> > From what I've read previously in this thread, it seems to me that the
> > only major problem with swapping that not all users want file system
> > cache to swap out actual applications (thus making that somewhat aged
> > mozilla window abit laggy).
> >
> > Maybe we could just have a "Allow file system cache to swap out
> > applications checkbox somewhere"?
> >
> > Or, Am I missing something?
>
> In practice, that would make no difference at all. Once physical memory is
> full (and it pretty much will always be so), every memory request (whether
No.
Many people have machines with plenty of RAM (512MB or more is pretty much
standard on new machines), much of which is only used to cache files. The
file cache is the reason the memory is full.
-- robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-01 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <fa.fegqf9v.kmidof@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.bqpvcrs.u648jq@ifi.uio.no>
2004-05-27 11:39 ` why swap at all? Andy Lutomirski
2004-05-28 21:37 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-05-28 22:28 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-05-29 7:31 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-05-29 8:40 ` MM patches (was Re: why swap at all?) Nick Piggin
2004-05-29 8:46 ` Nick Piggin
[not found] ` <200405292014.23559.matt@lpbproductions.com>
2004-05-30 3:31 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-31 13:13 ` Tvrtko A. Uršulin
2004-05-31 13:33 ` Con Kolivas
2004-05-31 17:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-05-31 10:49 ` why swap at all? jlnance
2004-06-01 11:57 ` Lenar Lõhmus
2004-06-01 12:27 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-06-01 16:49 ` jlnance
2004-06-01 17:38 ` why swap at all? (what the user feels) Martin Olsson
2004-06-01 17:57 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-06-01 18:01 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-01 19:01 ` Robin Rosenberg [this message]
2004-06-01 19:04 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-02 18:38 ` why swap at all? John Hendrikx
2004-06-01 12:21 ` David B. Stevens
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