From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265398AbUEZKCY (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 06:02:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265402AbUEZKCY (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 06:02:24 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:35026 "EHLO imag.imag.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265398AbUEZKCW (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 06:02:22 -0400 Message-ID: <40B46B29.5000007@imag.fr> Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:02:17 +0200 From: Raphael Jacquot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why swap at all? References: <40B43B5F.8070208@nodivisions.com> In-Reply-To: <40B43B5F.8070208@nodivisions.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Anthony DiSante wrote: > Or, to make it more appealing, say I initially had 512MB ram and now I > have 1GB. Wouldn't I much rather not use swap at all anymore, in this > case, on my desktop? I do that on embedded systems. no swap. when there's no more, the oomkiller kicks in and removes a few extraneous processes... > -Anthony > http://nodivisions.com/