[clug] Swap priority on 2.6 kernel

Ambrose Andrews ambrose.andrews at anu.edu.au
Sat Aug 14 03:53:50 GMT 2004


Nigel Cunningham wrote:

"""
same specs, I'd look at how much swap is used and the load of each. For
2.6, it's probably best not to use swap. I only use it for suspending.
"""




There's been a thread and a blog posting about this :-)

"to swap or not to swap"

see: http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2004-June/thread.html#11325

and: http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/linux-kernel/swap.html

i found it highly educational.

  -AA.


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