Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:45:08 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: herbert langhans <herbert.raimund@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAM & Swap & Speed Message-ID: <20080420194508.GX25623@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080420212847.178a849d.herbert.raimund@gmx.net> References: <20080420212847.178a849d.herbert.raimund@gmx.net>
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:28:47PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote:
> Hi Daemons,
> recently I had to add some more RAM on a workstation. Was 512MB before and is 2GB now, the reason was to give some graphic apps more space.
>
> But to my surprise the workstation ran faster--but before adding RAM it did NOT make use of the swap-partition and after the big RAM chip of course not too (checked it with #top).
>
> This was a Slackware installation. Had anyone experienced such effect on BSD as well?
All available RAM will be used for caching, reducing the need for slow
disk accesses for repeated read I/O.
Kris
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