> From: Bob Friesenhahn [mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us]
> 
> On Sat, 8 May 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> >
> > A vast majority of the time, the opposite is true.  Most of the time,
> having
> > swap available increases performance.  Because the kernel is able to
> choose:
> > "Should I swap out this idle process, or should I dump files out of
> cache?"
> > With swap enabled, the kernel is given another degree of freedom, to
> choose
> > which is colder:  idle process memory, or cold cached files.
> 
> Are you sure about this?  It is always good to be sure ...


Hehheheeh ...  I am sure of it in Linux.  I am only assuming
solaris/opensolaris are as good.  So I could be wrong.  ;-)

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