Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264933AbUFAI1I (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 04:27:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264932AbUFAI1I (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 04:27:08 -0400 Received: from 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk ([81.2.122.30]:1920 "EHLO 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264934AbUFAI1F (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 04:27:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 09:34:01 +0100 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200406010834.i518Y1cT000414@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> To: Nick Piggin Cc: Michael Brennan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <40BBB5F7.1010407@yahoo.com.au> References: <40BB88B5.8080300@ezrs.com> <200405312029.i4VKTCZ0000596@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <40BBB5F7.1010407@yahoo.com.au> Subject: Re: why swap at all? Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 885 Lines: 22 > > However, if 57 Mb of swap allows this, 57 Mb of extra physical RAM should also > > also allow the grep to be cached, without having to swap out anything. > > > > Well yes, but if I had another 57MB of physical memory then I would > still turn on swap so that other 57MB of unused memory isn't wasted. Sure, but tell me, for example, what is the point of having swap on a system like this: $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 516688 19900 496788 0 628 11276 -/+ buffers/cache: 7996 508692 Swap: 0 0 0 John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/