Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264923AbUFAIcY (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 04:32:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264932AbUFAIcY (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 04:32:24 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:51854 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264923AbUFAIcX (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2004 04:32:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 01:32:06 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: John Bradford Cc: Nick Piggin , Michael Brennan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why swap at all? Message-ID: <20040601083206.GI2093@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , John Bradford , Nick Piggin , Michael Brennan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <40BB88B5.8080300@ezrs.com> <200405312029.i4VKTCZ0000596@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <40BBB5F7.1010407@yahoo.com.au> <200406010834.i518Y1cT000414@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406010834.i518Y1cT000414@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 715 Lines: 18 On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:34:01AM +0100, John Bradford wrote: > 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 So you can move userspace pages out of ZONE_DMA as-needed. -- wli - 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/