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Tuning Linux VM swapping

Posted by michael on from the got-swap? dept.

Lank writes "Kernel developers started discussing the pros and cons of swapping to disk on the Linux Kernel mailing list. KernelTrap has coverage of the story on their homepage. Andrew Morton comments, 'My point is that decreasing the tendency of the kernel to swap stuff out is wrong. You really don't want hundreds of megabytes of BloatyApp's untouched memory floating about in the machine. Get it out on the disk, use the memory for something useful.' Personally, I just try to keep my memory usage below the physical memory in my machine, but I guess that's not always possible..."

3 of 324 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This reminds me of an old convo I had ... by Mwongozi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So this begs the questions

    No it doesn't.

  2. Re:God no... by MikeHunt69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... and how exactly will that help the OP in XP?

  3. Re:This reminds me of an old convo I had ... by tootlemonde · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes it does.

    Nope. Still doesn't

    The article cited says: Many people unaware of the technical meaning of "to beg the question" in logic use it in one of two looser senses.

    Stated in one of the two looser senses, this statement begs the question of why people who are unaware of the technical meaning would use an odd phrase like "beg the question".

    In idiomatic English, one would say "raises the question" and avoid the implication of ignorance masquerading as erudition.