Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:32:22AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Loss of swapped ram can cause all sorts of interesting filesystem
> corruption too.
Are you sure? That's what I tought at first but now I'm not so sure.
Dirty filesystem pages will not be swapped (that won't make any sense).
> Speed of swap doesn't matter anymore. Add more ram. It's cheap. Swap
> is for unusual events, not normal operation.
... and to make more RAM available by getting rid of unused-but-dirty
pages.
Gabor
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