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From: "Sebastian Beßler" <sebastian@darkmetatron.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:32:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDE5654.1010507@darkmetatron.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105252207.47238.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

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Am 25.05.2011 22:07, schrieb Alan McKinnon:

> I'd be interested to hear any current use cases where swap delivers a provable 
> benefit.

I need swap to build openoffice/libreoffice, my 8GB of RAM are not
sufficient all the time for the tmpfs of /var/tmp/portage when building
that.


But aside of that swap is useless and absolutly overrated. I have
swapness set to 5 and work with that without problems for nearly a year
now.


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-26 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-25 14:20 [gentoo-user] Swap performance Alex Schuster
2011-05-25 15:31 ` Paul Hartman
2011-05-25 16:58   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-05-25 19:34     ` Paul Hartman
2011-05-25 20:03     ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-25 20:38       ` Alex Schuster
2011-05-25 22:40   ` Alex Schuster
2011-05-26 16:30     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-05-25 16:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-26 20:49   ` Mick
2011-05-25 16:53 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-05-25 20:07   ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-26 13:32     ` Sebastian Beßler [this message]
2011-05-25 22:18   ` Alex Schuster
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2011-05-26 17:26 Alex Schuster

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