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Authored by: Wol on Thursday, September 20 2012 @ 01:23 PM EDT |
Maybe because he knows it's not a good idea?
I've had my head bitten off on the 'net for saying "maybe the old swap
should be at least twice ram rule is still valid", but it could well be.
Early vanilla 2.4 REQUIRED swap to be at least twice ram, or any swap access
would crash the system! I know that was Linus trying to get the swap system
re-written, but I don't know whether that changed the fundamental algorithms
(which were responsible for the old advice).
But anyways, Linux no longer recommends the presence of swap as a performance
enhancer which it used to do. But I need it because, with 8Gb of ram (since
upgraded) I used to build LibreOffice for gentoo on a tmpfs partition which was
guaranteed to overflow (now I've upgraded to 16Gb it's not needed :-)
Cheers,
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