Subj : Re: RAID 0 swap useless for performance - is this true?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Wed Oct 27 2004 01:02 pm

boa enlightened us with:
> The devices can of course be hardware RAID-0 devices, but I guess it
> is a lot cheaper to get more RAM. Better performance too.

Still, swap is very useful. There are always a few processes doing
nothing for a while. With swap space, those can be stored on disk,
freeing up memory that can then be used for disk cache.

Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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