Linux swaps. It always does. It has no relevance on performance unless its
doing a lot of it. Linux will nice a process down so low that it will decide
it's not even worth memory because it never uses it and swap it. It is
BETTER to swap this memory than waste it, which is why Linux does it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Raftery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 6:32 PM
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> Subject: Re: Any ideas?
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> On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 01:20:49PM -0400, Greg Owen wrote:
> > in use at boot time, quiet time, and heavy use time - if
> they stay the same,
> > then it isn't actually actively swapping.
>
> Absolutely. "the act of swapping" is the problem. Assigned swap space
> is fine - in fact it's quite good, as otherwise you'd be out of
> memory - but moving stuff into and out of swap is a killer.
>
> james
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