Re: excessive swap-in time

On Mar 17, 12:44 pm, phil-news-nos...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Actually, my target is to have enough RAM to do without any swap space at all.
I've heard arguments why I should not do this, but so far I have not heard any
that make sense. As soon I can solve the video issues on the new machine that
has no swap space with its 8 GB of RAM, I will see how well it performs with
the biggest of obese beasts: firefox after it has loaded 100 websites

If you have no swap space, the system cannot swap out pages that
haven't been touched for a very, very long time. This means that not
only must the working set fit in memory, but all modified pages that
are not part of the working set must fit as well. Thus the system may
page badly even if the working set is less than the total size of
physical memory.

DS
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