[clug] to swap or not to swap that is the question
Kim Holburn
kim.holburn at anu.edu.au
Tue Jun 29 12:00:29 GMT 2004
I have read several places that linux systems are always better with
(HD) swap (suggestions were that swap allows the system to not run out
of memory). I don't understand this.
Suppose you have a system with say 1G of RAM and swap of 2G. How is
that better than say a system with 2G of RAM (or even 3G RAM).
Is it because HD is so much slower that the wait causes everything to
slow down?
Help me out here - inquiring minds etc....
Kim
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