Re: why swap at all?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 09:38, Anthony DiSante wrote:
> As a general question about ram/swap and relating to some of the issues in
> this thread:
>
> 	~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell
>
> Consider this: I have a desktop system with 256MB ram, so I make a 256MB
> swap partition.  So I have 512MB "memory" and if some process wants more,
> too bad, there is no more.
>
> Now I buy another 256MB of ram, so I have 512MB of real memory.  Why not
> just disable my swap completely now?  I won't have increased my memory's
> size at all, but won't I have increased its performance lots?
>
> Or, to make it more appealing, say I initially had 512MB ram and now I have
> 1GB.  Wouldn't I much rather not use swap at all anymore, in this case, on
> my desktop?

Yes, you can run swapless. Nothing wrong with that.
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