From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 20 19:45:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 180C91065671; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:45:08 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:45:08 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway To: herbert langhans Message-ID: <20080420194508.GX25623@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20080420212847.178a849d.herbert.raimund@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080420212847.178a849d.herbert.raimund@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAM & Swap & Speed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:45:08 -0000 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 -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe