> > Why does Linux page executables from their original location? Isn't
> > that slower than putting it into the swapfile because you have to
> > wade through the filesystem layer when you need to page in? Or is
> > the penalty for writing it into the swap bigger than the filesystem
> > overhead?
>
> Yes.
:-)
Ok. Is there easy way to change it? On my system, swap is order of
magnitude faster than disk. I would like linux to take advantage of
it.
Pavel
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