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From: James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
To: war <war@starband.net>
Subject: Re: Swap vs No Swap.
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:41:48 +0000
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On Thursday 22 November 2001 4:36 pm, war wrote:
> The bottom line here is:
>
> There is no need for swap if you have enough ram.
> Using swap with more than enough ram does absolutley nothing for the
> system, except by degrading the performance of it.

If the system has so much RAM that EVERYTHING fits in RAM - programs, data 
and FS cache - then the swap won't be touched anyway, and makes no 
difference. This is rather unlikely on a PC; in practice, adding swap should 
always improve matters. (Of course, the VM isn't perfect yet...)


James.
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