[CentOS] Swap Considerations

Wed Feb 28 00:57:10 UTC 2007
William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>

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.

Feizhou wrote:
> William Warren wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> OH come on, you don't need to do that for a DESKTOP! Or do you really do 
> this for your deskop?
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