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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
To: Remco Post <r.post@sara.nl>
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Subject: Re: swap? 
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> > > What about a tux-only system?
> > > should I disable swap?
>
> On a tux only system, you'll have very little data that is not on a
> filesystem. Since all other applications running (you'll wind up with at least
> 20 or so processes like syslogd...) are very small, and those will use very
> little data-pages, you'll probably see no benefit from having a swappartition.
> Having enough RAM to be used as a buffer-cache seems more usefull. Unused
> code-pages of userland apps will be discarded anyway. Leaving you with more
> memory to be used as a buffer-cache.

What could be the overhead of using swap?
--
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA

Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.


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