Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:26:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:26:36 -0400 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:776 "HELO garrincha.netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:26:35 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 16:29:29 -0300 (BRT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: Ed Sweetman cc: Buddy Lumpkin , Ville Herva , Linux-kernel Subject: RE: About the need of a swap area In-Reply-To: <1027882706.4228.138.camel@psuedomode> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 606 Lines: 20 On 28 Jul 2002, Ed Sweetman wrote: > If you bother to do any real tests you'd see that linux will swap when > nothing is going on and this doesn't hinder anything. Linux only puts pages in swap when it's low on free physical memory. regards, Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/