RE: why swap at all?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 15:07, Buddy Lumpkin wrote:
> those environments horizontally in most cases. The biggest performance
> problems to solve (that people care about and are willing to pay $$ to
> solve) are for the large databases that run Corporate America. There are
> certainly scientific applications where performance is critical and there
> are dollars to fund improvement as well, but their numbers don't compare to
> the number of Oracle instances out there running in the Enterprise.

Oh yeah, poor Corporate America. That what we should care most of.

> Optimizing the performance of swap operations for even a small tradeoff in
> performance for memory operations that take place entirely in physical
> memory is just a broke minded, brain dead direction in the year 2004 IMHO.

Sorry Buddy. I am _not_ Corporate America.
I have 4 boxes at work and 5 boxes at home,
and only one of them can be safely run swapless. It's a router.
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vda
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