Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:04:19PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> That is not _filesystem_ corruption. And it is not worse than just
> cutting the power, so "disk containing swap dies" is no worse than any
> other crash.
I still prefer not having any crash at all when I already have the
hardware needed to avoid it.
> Linux pushes out inactive pages to swap so it can cache more active
> pages in RAM. As long as the size of your working set (data you either
> read or write) exceeds the size of RAM, getting rid of unneeded pages
> and using the memory for caching is a win.
Sure, although I almost never see it happen on my machines.
Len Sorensen
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