Depends. Some multiuser machines spend a lot of time idle.
> - - With today's RAM and disk prices, the diskless machines that used to swap
> over the net are long gone history
Not so -- PCs that normally run MS Windows are sometimes booted into
running Linux over a network. There is a disk but it's not used.
Though in this case compressed NFS would be more important than
compressed swapping.
-- Jamie
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