Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system
lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
> 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
Burn a dvd. Or any other job that pushes a few gig around the fs.
MfG
Goswin
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