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The Saturday 2007-12-22 at 16:29 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
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This is why I made a comment about *not* using "swap"
on a system -- if you are using swap on any regular basis (my
threshhold is using swap, *anytime*, during 'normal' day-to-day
usage), you are running applications that are "too big" for for
your machine.
Tsk, tsk... I have a machine with 32 MiB of memory and about 1 GiB swap,
and there were an application that filled more than half of it; and it run
:-P
The system is 7.3 and the app was yast (you, actually). It had a big
memory hole (known bug). Without that much swap the update would simply
crash, and new memory was no longer available for the machine.
Still, it worked.
A statement such as "any swap usage is bad" is not always correct for
every body and every circumstance. It will not be as fast as having more
ram, but... it works. Swap was designed for such a use. If designers
thought that swap is a bad thing (R), they would not have designed kernel
2.6 with swap enabled. They would remove the swapping code and tell us to
buy more ram instead. Hardware makers would be very happy.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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