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From: "Dan Mann" <daniel_b_mann1@hotmail.com>
To: "VDA" <VDA@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux VM design
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:11:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <OE53f3LSW50Pfs56PHo00002624@hotmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010916204528.6fd48f5b.skraw@ithnet.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010920231251.26679B-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com> <20010921124338.4e31a635.skraw@ithnet.com> <20010922105332Z16449-2757+1233@humbolt.nl.linux.org> <6514162334.20010924123631@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>

I hope this isn't the wrong place to ask this but,  wouldn't it be better to
increase ram size and decrease swap size as memory requirements grow?  For
instance, say I have a lightly loaded machine, that has 192MB of ram.  From
everything I've heard in the past, I'd use roughly 192MB of swap with this
machine.  The problem I would imagine is that if all 192MB got used wouldn't
it be terribly slow to read/write that much data back in?  Would less swap,
say 32 MB make the kernel more restrictive with it's available memory and
make the box more responsive when it's heavily using swap?

Or am I way off and just smoking crack?  (which I may very well be)

This damn mailing list is addictive.  Now I read it at work.

Dan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-24 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-16 15:19 broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 Ricardo Galli
2001-09-16 15:23 ` Michael Rothwell
2001-09-16 16:33   ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-16 16:50     ` Andreas Steinmetz
2001-09-16 17:12       ` Ricardo Galli
2001-09-16 17:06     ` Ricardo Galli
2001-09-16 17:18       ` Jeremy Zawodny
2001-09-16 18:45       ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-21  3:16         ` Bill Davidsen
2001-09-21 10:21         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-21 14:08           ` Bill Davidsen
2001-09-21 14:23             ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-23 13:13               ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-23 13:27                 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-21 10:43         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-21 12:13           ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-21 12:55           ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-21 13:01             ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-22 11:01           ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-22 20:05             ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-24  9:36           ` Linux VM design VDA
2001-09-24 11:06             ` Dave Jones
2001-09-24 12:15               ` Kirill Ratkin
2001-09-24 13:29             ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-24 14:05               ` VDA
2001-09-24 14:37                 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-24 14:42                 ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-24 18:37             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-24 19:32               ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-24 17:27                 ` Rob Landley
2001-09-24 21:48                   ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-25  9:58                 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-25 16:03               ` bill davidsen
2001-09-24 18:46             ` Jonathan Morton
2001-09-24 19:16               ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-24 19:11             ` Dan Mann [this message]
2001-09-25 10:55             ` VDA
2001-09-16 18:16     ` broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-16 19:43     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16 19:57       ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-16 20:17       ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-16 20:29       ` Andreas Steinmetz
2001-09-16 21:28         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16 22:47           ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-09-16 22:55             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16 22:59           ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-16 22:14             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16 23:29               ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-17 15:35             ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-17 15:51               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 16:34               ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-17 16:46                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 17:20                 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-09-17 17:37                   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17  0:37       ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-17  1:07         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17  2:23           ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-17  5:11           ` Jan Harkes
2001-09-17 12:33             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-17 12:41               ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-17 14:49                 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-09-17 16:14               ` Jan Harkes
2001-09-17 16:34                 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 15:38             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 12:26           ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-17 15:42             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-18 12:04               ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-17 17:33             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-17 18:07               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-18 12:09               ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-21  3:10       ` Bill Davidsen
2001-09-17  8:06     ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-17 12:12       ` Rik van Riel
2001-09-17 15:45         ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-25 11:00 Linux VM design VDA
2001-09-25 11:07 ` Rik van Riel

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