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From: Mike Galbraith <mikeg@wen-online.de>
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Subject: Re: Swap vs No Swap.
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Thomas S. Iversen wrote:

> > There is no need for swap if you have enough ram.
>
> Turn it off. How hard can that be?

That was my initial reaction too.  I don't have near the memory
he does and am very satisfied with VM throughput.  I'm seeing
some bad interactivity problems when loading my box while X/KDE
is resident though.. things I don't see in shell land at all.

	-Mike

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