On Sat, 8 May 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
A vast majority of the time, the opposite is true. Most of the time, having swap available increases performance. Because the kernel is able to choose: "Should I swap out this idle process, or should I dump files out of cache?" With swap enabled, the kernel is given another degree of freedom, to choose which is colder: idle process memory, or cold cached files.
Are you sure about this? It is always good to be sure ... -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
