On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 13:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> The overhead I though about was more about the CPU time required
> to sift through the records rather than the amount of memory it takes.

Last I looked in detail, its a three-level tree lookup - pretty much
constant regardless of swap size.

> I haven't heard about the 2.6 improvments you talk about, so what
> you are saying is that "large swap is not such a bad idea" under 2.6?

Yup.

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