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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next prev parent 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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