On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Lech Szychowski wrote:
> > > I'm using X all the time, so I really can't tell what it would be
> > > like without X. My experience is swap does not start growing until
> > > I start to use networking (either NFS or Arkeia) heavily.
> >
> > can you try to do some of your networking stuff while not running X,
> > and see if your system already start swaping ?
>
> I'll try, but what worries me most is the apparent strangeness
> in VM manager behavior: cached memory not shrinking and swap
> growing at the same time...
Question is, have any of you actually noticed a performance
hit because of this or are you just seeing different numbers
than what you're used to and automatically assuming that it
must be wrong?
If there is no performance hit, I don't see what would be wrong
by using a few MB of swap...
regards,
Rik
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