Quoting Josh Parsons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > As you say, obviously adding more RAM to a machine reduces (rather than > increasing) the need for swap. It's odd that people seem to behave as if > the reverse were true. :)
People often misread -- or, well, overinterpret -- the output of "free" and "top": Those utilities _will_ show some swap usage regardless of how much RAM you add. Provide the kernel with some swap space to use, and it will put the swap to work -- and also allocate all available, otherwise uncommitted physical RAM as disk buffers / cache. If you've previously only lived in a DOS/Windows or Mac OS v. < 10 world, the picture this paints can seem misleading. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
