From: war <war@starband.net>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap vs No Swap.
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:01:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BFD214F.36A55D94@starband.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BFC5A9B.915B77DF@starband.net> <01112211150302.00690@argo>
Once again, I have enough ram where I am not going to run out for the things I
do.
I never need swap.
When the system swaps, it slows down the system responsiveness big time.
Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 22 November 2001 02:53 schrieb war:
> > I do not understand something.
> >
> > How can having swap speed ANYTHING up?
> >
> > RAM = 1000MB/s.
> > DISK = 10MB/s
> >
> > Ram is generally 1000x faster than a hard disk.
> >
> > No swap = fastest possible solution.
>
> At some point you will run out of ram. Then you have to start paging. The
> only question there is whether you page only mmaped files including program
> code or whether you also write out program data.
>
> HTH
> Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-22 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-22 1:53 Swap vs No Swap war
2001-11-22 2:23 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-11-22 2:31 ` war
2001-11-22 2:58 ` Mark Hahn
2001-11-22 4:09 ` listmail
2001-11-22 5:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-22 5:30 ` war
2001-11-22 5:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-22 9:50 ` Christian Bornträger
2001-11-22 8:50 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-22 11:00 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-22 16:00 ` war
2001-11-22 16:08 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-22 16:57 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-22 18:56 ` François Cami
2001-11-22 18:58 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-22 19:17 ` François Cami
2001-11-22 19:36 ` G . Sumner Hayes
2001-11-22 20:37 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-23 6:30 ` Charles Marslett
2001-11-23 9:13 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-23 16:46 ` Charles Marslett
2001-11-22 16:25 ` war
2001-11-22 16:37 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-11-22 17:39 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-22 17:56 ` war
[not found] ` <01112211150302.00690@argo>
2001-11-22 16:01 ` war [this message]
2001-11-22 16:12 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-22 16:36 ` war
2001-11-22 16:33 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-11-22 17:37 ` Thomas S. Iversen
2001-11-22 21:18 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-11-22 17:41 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-22 17:56 ` war
2001-11-22 18:08 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-23 22:05 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-22 16:11 Elgar, Jeremy
2001-11-22 16:22 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-11-22 16:22 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-11-22 16:29 Elgar, Jeremy
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111221006010.29736-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-11-22 16:34 ` war
2001-11-26 20:18 ` Kent Borg
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