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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 00:30:41 -0500
From: war <war@starband.net>
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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Swap vs No Swap.
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Yeah, but when the disk starts swapping the system slows down to a halt.


"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:

> Followup to:  <3BFC5A9B.915B77DF@starband.net>
> By author:    war <war@starband.net>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > I do not understand something.
> >
> > How can having swap speed ANYTHING up?
> >
>
> By allowing RAM to be better utilized.
>
>         -hpa
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