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From: James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
To: war <war@starband.net>, Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
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Subject: Re: Swap vs No Swap.
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:12:32 +0000
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On Thursday 22 November 2001 4:01 pm, war wrote:
> Once again, I have enough ram where I am not going to run out for the
> things I do.
> I never need swap.
>
> When the system swaps, it slows down the system responsiveness big time.

"when it swaps" is meaningless: Linux ALWAYS swaps when there is swapspace. 
Do you mean when it *thrashes*? Or does your system have problems during I/O 
such as not using DMA for disk access?


James.
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