Am 17.05.2012 14:46, schrieb Jari Fredriksson:
> On 17.5.2012 15:36, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 17.05.2012 14:29, schrieb Joel Rees:
>>> Do you understand the reason you still set up swap, even though your
>>> entire workload working set fits into RAM?
>>
>> there is no single reason if you have neough RAM
>>
> 
> RAM is better used for disk cache than for idling processes. If a
> process does nothing it can be swapped out and the memory used where needed

says who?

if you have running applications than for a reason
swap them out for cache POSSIBLY re-needed disk blocks
will cause delays and re-read from disk

on a typical workload with 8-16 GB RAm there is no sible reason
for swap, especially on workstations but mostly also on
servers if they have enough RAM

and i am speaking here about a server hosting some hundret domains
as example which has 7000 mysql tables, no single byte swapped
and a load-avg around 0.8

again: swap may be usefull if you have too few RAM
on modern machines starting with 8-16 GB this is esotheric

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