On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:28:57 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> still - in XXI century disk sizes, even some overcommiting swap space
> doesn't make a problem.
>
> if program needs 10 or more times swap than memory, the program should be
> changed to use less memory hungry algorithm, or be tunable (like sort with
> -S)
>
> swap is NOT memory replacement
absolutely...and if your program needs so much memory, RAM will probably help a
lot more than slow swap. RAM is quite cheap nowadays too.
B
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