On 9 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
>
> Yes, but a lot more data on the swap also means degraded performance,
> because the disk head has to seek around in the much bigger area. Are
> you sure this is all OK?
Yes and no.
I'm not _sure_, obviously.
However, one thing I _am_ sure of is that the sticky page-cache simplifies
some things enormously, and make some things possible that simply weren't
possible before.
Linus
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