Only my anecode. I've had systems become annoyingly sluggish because the OS decided I no longer need something and paged it out, even tough I had plenty of RAM. Turns out I needed that something.
> 2) It does help you, that's the point. It makes your disk reads faster
I just gave my numbers. The systems are not caching nearly as much as I have ram. These numbers come from systems I use every day; they are not idle.
> 3) Your answer to needing memory is 'buy more ram', but you 'may have a use for that disk space'? Buy more disk.
Why are people so hell bent on telling me I should use swap that doesn't actually help me at all? Yes I buy as much as disk as I need, and I'm not putting unnecessary swapfiles or partitions on them. Yes I also buy as much RAM as I need.
The only real justification I see for swap here is that it's cheaper -- poor man's RAM. I call that emergency memory for when you can't have enough RAM. If I have enough memory, swap is completely pointless.
Only my anecode. I've had systems become annoyingly sluggish because the OS decided I no longer need something and paged it out, even tough I had plenty of RAM. Turns out I needed that something.
> 2) It does help you, that's the point. It makes your disk reads faster
I just gave my numbers. The systems are not caching nearly as much as I have ram. These numbers come from systems I use every day; they are not idle.
> 3) Your answer to needing memory is 'buy more ram', but you 'may have a use for that disk space'? Buy more disk.
Why are people so hell bent on telling me I should use swap that doesn't actually help me at all? Yes I buy as much as disk as I need, and I'm not putting unnecessary swapfiles or partitions on them. Yes I also buy as much RAM as I need.
The only real justification I see for swap here is that it's cheaper -- poor man's RAM. I call that emergency memory for when you can't have enough RAM. If I have enough memory, swap is completely pointless.