[CentOS] Re: Swap Considerations

[William Warren]

wow..i actually remembe3red what that was..rofl..:)  That's not a term i 
have heard in a looooong time..<G>

Scott Silva wrote:
> William Warren spake the following on 2/27/2007 12:04 PM:
>> I'm going to be different from most.  I don't believe in using swap at
>> all.  I have my swap starting equal to my ram and as i go up i REDUCE
>> the swap.  My vm.swappiness is always set to zero as swapping to disk is
>> many times slower than keeping it in ram.
>>
> Yes, but a small bit of swap in an emergency condition wouldn't hurt, and dasd
> is a lot cheaper than it used to be.
> 
> I guess I am showing my age with the dasd reference.
> 

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