On 2007-02-05 20:24, Dan Streetman wrote: > On 2/5/07, Nicolas Maufrais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Heroine Virtual Ltd recommends disabling swap when a lot of memory is > > installed. > > This is not a good idea under any circumstances. Disabling swap will > never help anything or improve performance, ever. It will only cause > the system to start killing processes when you use up all system > memory. Do not disable swap.
Hi Dan, This will only be true for kernels with the OOM killer running, right? Here's the link to comments from Cinelerra's author about swap usage: http://cvs.cinelerra.org/docs/wiki/doku.php?id=english_manual:cinelerra_cv_en_20#disabling_swap_space I've seen system behavior that makes me believe his comments about disk caching using system memory (back in ext2 days.) Maybe this is no longer true for newer kernels. But I suspect your 'never help' comment might be overzealous. ;) Would you say newer kernels with current versions of filesystems no longer exhibit this behavior? Or is something else going on here? Thanks, -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
