From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265495AbUEZLhy (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 07:37:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265392AbUEZLhx (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 07:37:53 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:12714 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265496AbUEZLgG (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 May 2004 07:36:06 -0400 From: "Buddy Lumpkin" To: "'John Bradford'" , "'Nick Piggin'" Cc: "'William Lee Irwin III'" , , Subject: RE: why swap at all? Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 04:39:50 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 In-Reply-To: <200405260934.i4Q9YblP000762@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Thread-Index: AcRDA6vUYzu3ANKsSMCwDndRH8i3LQAEnhNQ Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Exactly ... -----Original Message----- From: John Bradford [mailto:john@grabjohn.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:35 AM To: Nick Piggin; Buddy Lumpkin Cc: 'William Lee Irwin III'; orders@nodivisions.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why swap at all? Quote from Nick Piggin : > Even for systems that don't *need* the extra memory space, swap can > actually provide performance improvements by allowing unused memory > to be replaced with often-used memory. That's true, but it's not a magical property of swap space - extra physical RAM would do more or less the same thing. John.