Re: why swap at all?

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:34:01AM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
> Sure, but tell me, for example, what is the point of having swap on a system
> like this:
> $ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        516688      19900     496788          0        628      11276
> -/+ buffers/cache:       7996     508692
> Swap:            0          0          0

So you can move userspace pages out of ZONE_DMA as-needed.


-- wli
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