Re: Speeding up swap

bert hubert (ahu@casema.net)
Sat, 16 Oct 1999 23:42:34 +0200


On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 08:11:01PM +0200, Kristian Koehntopp wrote:

> A friend of mine has a machine which is being used for certain
> numerical problems. The system has 512 MB RAM and another 1.5
> Gig of RAM. The memory objects in use are usually contiguous

On a side note, when you know in advance that you will be using (far) more
memory than is available as RAM, there are better ways to solve your problem
than to (ab)use a huge swapfile.

Regards,

bert hubert.

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