Re: why swap at all?

[Wakko Warner]

> > Come on, that is quite an exaggeration.  It can happen in a span of 
> > minutes -- after rsyncing a dir to a backup dir, for example, which 
> > fills ram rather quickly with cache I'll never use again.  Or after 
> > configuring and compiling a package, which does the same thing.
> > 
> 
> rsync is something known to break the VM's use-once heuristics.
> I'm looking at that.

I have a question about that.  I keep a debian mirror on one of my machines. 
there is over 70000 files.  If I run find on that tree while it's
downloading the file list, it doesn't take as long.  I thought it would be
nice if there was some way I could keep that in memory.  The box has 256mb
ram no swap.  It is configured as diskless.

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