Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:25:08 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "millueradfa@yahoo.com" <millueradfa@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20080207222508.703e3b46@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20080207092634.J22656@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <50460.33951.qm@web34512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080206205042.H4868@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080207151415.06393db1@meijome.net> <20080207092634.J22656@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:28:57 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> still - in XXI century disk sizes, even some overcommiting swap space
> doesn't make a problem.
>
> if program needs 10 or more times swap than memory, the program should be
> changed to use less memory hungry algorithm, or be tunable (like sort with
> -S)
>
> swap is NOT memory replacement
absolutely...and if your program needs so much memory, RAM will probably help a lot more than slow swap. RAM is quite cheap nowadays too.
B
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