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Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 06:50:38 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: war <war@starband.net>
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Subject: Re: Swap vs No Swap.
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, war wrote:

> I do not understand something.
> How can having swap speed ANYTHING up?
>
> RAM = 1000MB/s.
> DISK = 10MB/s
>
> Ram is generally 1000x faster than a hard disk.

This also means that the the caching of files from your
filesystem (say, /usr/bin/netscape or /lib/libc.so) is
1000x faster than reading them from disk.

> No swap = fastest possible solution.

Not true if having no swap means you do not have enough
memory to cache /lib/libc.so ;)

regards,

Rik
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