On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Henry J. Cobb wrote:
> Does anybody really want to wait while their swap data is duplicated out to
> multiple disks by a CPU that is working to free up memory to run
> applications?
>
> Isn't Swapping slow enough already?
>
> Why not simply swap on multiple disks, get Hardware RAID-5 for swap or buy
> RAM?
>
Linux uses swap intelligently, if areas of memory don't change they get
swapped out to disk, making more physical RAM available for file caching,
etc. Having swap is good even if you have oodles of RAM just for that
reason.
Bill Carlson
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