[rescue] G4 pricing

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 @ 21:17 +0100, Peter Corlett said:

> Linux's VM system does some really cute things that you lose out on  
> if you don't have swap, such as speculatively swapping out long-term  
> idle processes and reusing the RAM as disk cache for programs that  
> are actually running. A Linux system with "sufficient RAM" will still  
> show some swap usage for this very reason.

This is especially true if you use the Kolivas kernels, which swap a lot
of things out, but allow "free" repaging if the pages have not been used
by anything else.


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