Re: why swap at all?

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 08:31:26AM -0400, Piszcz, Justin Michael wrote:
> If I have 16GB of ram should I use swap?
> Would swap cause the machine to slow down?

Yes. You want swap so you can physically relocate anonymous pages in the
rare case one ends up somewhere it could cause memory pressure against
allocations that can only be satisfied by a restricted range of memory.


-- wli
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