swap space??

[Chris Ruprecht]

Max,

On Monday 19 August 2002 13:00, Max Wiberg wrote:

[snip]

>
> Personally speaking, I haven't found this very critical, on my
> flatpanel iMac with 512 Mb ram,
> 80G hd, I have run with both 512 - 1025Mb swap.
> I havent noticed any big difference, but as they say, your mileage may
> differ.

You will only notice the difference, if your system is running programs w=
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actually use the swap space. Unlike Windoze, which _always_ uses it, no=20
matter what, Linux and most UNIXes, except OS X, only uses it, if it real=
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needs it. Therefore, if everything you're doing fits into real memory (RA=
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you will never have to swap. You might find some small usage (a few KB in=
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use) where it has swapped out something it doesn't need - like some progr=
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which is run at startup but never used. I'm not sure why it swaps that ou=
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time but not at other times but then, I never bothered to check what it i=
s.

- chris
>
> Cheers:  Max!

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Chris Ruprecht
Network Grunt and bitpusher extraordinaire