Some ideas for FreeBSD

[Norberto Meijome]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:28:57 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

> still - in XXI century disk sizes, even some overcommiting swap space 
> doesn't make a problem.
> 
> if program needs 10 or more times swap than memory, the program should be 
> changed to use less memory hungry algorithm, or be tunable (like sort with 
> -S)
> 
> swap is NOT memory replacement

absolutely...and if your program needs so much memory, RAM will probably help a lot more than slow swap. RAM is quite cheap nowadays too.

B

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