Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window)

Ed Tomlinson
2011-11-08T12:15:13Z

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....