[NBLUG/talk] My new debin server

[Lincoln Peters]

William Tracy wrote:
>> In theory, Linux shouldn't swap out recently-used or commonly-used pages
>> to make room for buffer/cache.  If you are experiencing paging when
>> switching applications, then you do need more physical RAM.
>
> It's a problem when you switch to a program that hasn't been used for
> a few hours. :-P

I suppose you could try using a ramdisk as a swap partition.  I know it 
sounds crazy, but I know people who swear it offers some kind of 
performance gain, perhaps due to this (sometimes over-aggressive) swapping.


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Lincoln Peters
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