Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2004 09:34:01 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: why swap at all? |
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> > However, if 57 Mb of swap allows this, 57 Mb of extra physical RAM should also > > also allow the grep to be cached, without having to swap out anything. > > > > Well yes, but if I had another 57MB of physical memory then I would > still turn on swap so that other 57MB of unused memory isn't wasted.
Sure, but tell me, for example, what is the point of having swap on a system like this:
$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 516688 19900 496788 0 628 11276 -/+ buffers/cache: 7996 508692 Swap: 0 0 0
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