On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:32:22AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Loss of swapped ram can cause all sorts of interesting filesystem
> corruption too.

Are you sure? That's what I tought at first but now I'm not so sure.
Dirty filesystem pages will not be swapped (that won't make any sense).

> Speed of swap doesn't matter anymore.  Add more ram.  It's cheap.  Swap
> is for unusual events, not normal operation.

... and to make more RAM available by getting rid of unused-but-dirty
pages.

Gabor

-- 
     ---------------------------------------------------------
     MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute
                Hungarian Academy of Sciences
     ---------------------------------------------------------


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to