2012/6/2 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: >> well designed machines do NOT swap and have not alligend >> swap at all - in the case of virtualization you MUST NOT >> enforce swapping if you really like perofrmance > > I'm sorry, I couldn't quite hear you— perhaps more all-caps would help? :-) > > The dogmatic 'swap is bad for performance' is justified only because > writing/reading a slow disk is bad for performance. > > Tmpfs helps your system avoid disk i/o by giving your system more > flexibility in how it manages all of the available temporary space. > > It's something that people who are very concerned with swap impact on > performance should appreciate greatly. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Is all this discussion about performance, optimization and memory management based on some benchmarks as well, or it is only a "feels like" flame? -- Guido Grazioli <guido.grazi...@gmail.com> Via Parri 11 48011 - Alfonsine (RA) (Italy) 3 Baltic Circuit - 3030 Point Cook - VIC (Australia) Mobile: +39 347 1017202 (10-18 GMT+12) Key FP = 7040 F398 0DED A737 7337 DAE1 12DC A698 5E81 2278 Linked in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/guidograzioli -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
