Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 16:39:20 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap space... Message-ID: <38205728.CBA940A@nisser.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911031426490.67462-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > So TOO much swap space can be a bad thing? I just saw a comment saying > too much space will allow the OS to swap everything to disk and reduce > performance. Not really. Besides, consider the alternative: not enough swap. Then what is the poor overloaded OS to do when you heap on yet more work? That it will allow the OS to swap out all does not mean the OS will actually do just that. Well, maybe some OS's do or at least it looks like some do, but I haven't noticed it with Unixen. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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