[CentOS] Swap Considerations

[William Warren]

windows doesn't work like Linux..:0
In windows it does everything it can to present some free memory to the 
admins because they are trained from 9x that says you must have free 
physical ram or the systems will crash.  Plus windows allocates swap for 
every byte of allocated physical memory.

We all know how Linux totally departs from this mindless ideal..:)

Feizhou wrote:
> William Warren wrote:
>> I do it for ALL Linux boxes i run.  Why would i want to chug a machine 
>> through swap?  That's the windows way of doing things. I'll just throw 
>> in memory..especially with how cheap it is these days.
>>
> 
> /me wishes he had spare cash to get more RAM to handle memory abusing 
> GTK apps.
> 
> :D
> 
> Funny though that you say Windows chugs through swap. I remember 
> millions of posts from newbie Linux 'admins' complaining about Linux 
> using up all memory available. Does not that imply that Windows does not 
> chug through swap? Or you are just saying that is what Windows admins do?
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