Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751039AbWAYGN6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:13:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751037AbWAYGN6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:13:58 -0500 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:59055 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751034AbWAYGN5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:13:57 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:13:26 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier To: Horst von Brand Cc: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" , Diego Calleja , Ram Gupta , mloftis@wgops.com, barryn@pobox.com, a1426z@gawab.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... Message-ID: <20060125061326.GA22101@mail.shareable.org> References: <200601240211.k0O28rnn003165@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200601240211.k0O28rnn003165@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 631 Lines: 16 Horst von Brand wrote: > Good rule of thumb: If you run into swap, add RAM. Swap is /extremely/ slow > memory, however fast you make it go. RAM is not expensive anymore... Actually, RAM is expensive if you've reached the limits of your machine and have to buy a new machine to get more RAM. That's exactly the situation I've reached with my laptop. It's extremely annoying. -- Jamie - 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/