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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 21:32:24 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: war <war@starband.net>
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Subject: Re: Swap vs No Swap.
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war wrote:

> Yeah, but when the disk starts swapping the system slows down to a halt.
> 


No, when the disk starts *THRASHING* the system slows down to a halt. 
If you are thrashing with swap you would be thrashing much worse without 
swap.

	-hpa


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