From: war <war@starband.net>
To: James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap vs No Swap.
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:56:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BFD3C6B.B23D0A97@starband.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BFC5A9B.915B77DF@starband.net> <E166rbB-0005LC-00@mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk> <3BFD2709.31A1A85E@starband.net> <E166xok-0000Nm-00@mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Thank you for understanding!
James A Sutherland wrote:
> On Thursday 22 November 2001 4:25 pm, war wrote:
> > Why have SWAP if you don't need it - answer that.?
>
> Having it is supposed to improve performance. If you take two identical
> machines, and enable swap on one but not the other, the first machine should
> have better performance: it can cache the FS more effectively.
>
> Now, if you have INSANE amounts of RAM (i.e. enough to have everything
> running in RAM *AND* every file you access cached) the swap will make no
> difference at all. Under any other circumstances, it should make things
> better.
>
> James.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-22 17:58 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 [this message]
[not found] ` <01112211150302.00690@argo>
2001-11-22 16:01 ` war
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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