Re: Swap vs No Swap.

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 00:32:24 EST


war wrote:

> Yeah, but when the disk starts swapping the system slows down to a halt.
>

No, when the disk starts *THRASHING* the system slows down to a halt.
If you are thrashing with swap you would be thrashing much worse without
swap.

        -hpa

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