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Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system



On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:36:48PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> Only to the amout of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. After that binaries and
> data are swapped out in favour of more cache.

Binaries do not use swap. File-backed R/O mapped pages can simply be
discarded because they can always be reloaded from the backing file.

The only exception when a relocation dirties the page, but relocations
have more noticable performance impacts than increased swap usage.

Gabor

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