Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:22:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:22:38 -0500 Received: from darkwing.uoregon.edu ([128.223.142.13]:55432 "EHLO darkwing.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:22:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 18:23:00 -0800 (PST) From: Joel Jaeggli X-X-Sender: To: war cc: Subject: Re: Swap vs No Swap. In-Reply-To: <3BFC5A9B.915B77DF@starband.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, war wrote: > No swap = fastest possible solution. assuming you can safely run without swap yes... In many cases paging out processes you're not using can free up memoery for useful things like caching disk writes... for a significant number of people running without swap isn't an option. if you have fine grained control over how much of your memory is used by your apps then running without swap can be a resonable option... 6:19pm up 3 days, 5:15, 3 users, load average: 0.44, 0.58, 0.61 53 processes: 51 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 7.5% user, 17.6% system, 0.0% nice, 74.7% idle Mem: 770844K av, 767476K used, 3368K free, 824K shrd, 80280K buff Swap: 0K av, 0K used, 0K free 134424K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 1076 squid 16 0 499M 499M 2108 R 23.0 66.3 2546m squid > - > 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/ > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu Academic User Services consult@gladstone.uoregon.edu PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is clear that the arm of criticism cannot replace the criticism of arms. Karl Marx -- Introduction to the critique of Hegel's Philosophy of the right, 1843. - 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/