RE: why swap at all?

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Buddy Lumpkin wrote:

> No. I am not making any assertions whatsoever. I am just calling out
> that systems that run happily from physical memory and are not in need
> of swap should never sacrifice an ounce of performance

Executables and shared libraries live in the filesystem
cache.  Evicting those from memory - because swapping is
disabled and "the VM should remove something from cache
instead" - will feel exactly the same as swapping ...

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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